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miscellaneous
Kitchin's Hampshire 1767 |
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Thomas Kitchin's strip maps show incidental features beside the
road, what the tourist might or should notice, perhaps.
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windmills: a post mill (eg: pl.30 m.61):-
Charlton Mill
There is another at Alton.
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water mills: A water mill is labelled near Southampton
(eg: pl.55 m.3):-
a mill
There is a 'paper mill' elsewhere.
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fortifications: Fortifications are drawn to suggest
polygonal style walls around Portsmouth (eg: pl.30 m.73). At
Portsey Bridge guarding Portsea Island the wall is labelled:-
a Fort
There are fortifications around Gosport and around the naval
base on Portsmouth Common (eg: pl.30 m.72). Kitchin shows more
fortifications in this area than his predecessors.
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schools: At Alton (eg: pl.55 m.50) is:-
Free School
which is Eggars School.
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posts: There is a post drawn at 'Bluck on the Heath'
near Romsey (eg: pl.55 m.10) labelled:-
a post
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crosses: There is a cross drawn at Picket Post near
Ringwood (eg: pl.50 m.94) with no label.
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antiquities: The three tumuli of Popham Beacons are copied
in an unlikely shape (eg: pl.58 m.57) with no labelling. It feels
as tho' the engraver had no idea what he was drawing. They are
fairly indeterminate on Ogilby's map (pl.53) a hundred
years earlier.
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inns: Inns are not much noticed but there are one or
two references. A turning is labelled:-
to Skippords Inn
from the road near Oakley. And:-
the Hutt
is labelled near Lopcomb Corner.
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race courses: The race course on the downs above
Salisbury, Wiltshire, is indicated by several labels:-
The Race
the Stand
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gallows: A mile short of Kingston, Surrey, near Richmond
Park, on the road from London to Portsmouth (pl.30 m.11) is a
drawing labelled:-
Gallows
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