| Map featuresKitchin's Hampshire 1751 (smaller map) |
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title cartouche: monumental stone, with map maker's name. |
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compass rose: minimalist design. |
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scale line: 'British Statute Miles'. |
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latitude and longitude scales: chequered side and
bottom borders. |
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coat of arms: for Southampton. |
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coast: the sea coast is emphasised by form lines which continue
up estauries and into harbours, and into the lower part of rivers. |
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rivers: major rivers are shewn, tapering upstream. Some
are named, eg:-'Tees R.' for the River Test. Bridges are implied by road crossings, ie not for sure. |
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A few lakes are shown, eg on a stream north of Alresford. None of the Hampshire harbours happens to be labelled, but Spit Head is labelled. |
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relief: shown by small shaded hillocks, these seem just
to be filling space decoratively. They are scattered about
liberally. |
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woods, forests: shown by little trees, drawn with a
shadow, these seem just to be filling space decoratively. New Forrest is labelled as an area rather than as a forest. |
 
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parks: very few parks are shown on this map, a vague circle of
fence palings indicates a park at Dogmersfield and at Farnborough,
the name N Park labels a ?settlement near Beaulieu.
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county: the county boundary is a dashed line. hundreds are not shown. |
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settlements: symbols for houses, hamlets, villages,
cities, etc. |
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roads: at least three grades of road are shown. |
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antiquities: there is no special symbol for antiquities,
but a few roman place names are given. castle: generally there is no special symbol for castles, though there might be a flag. |
 
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