roads

Morden's playing card map, Hampshire, 1676
Roads The roads on Morden's playing card map of Hampshire are what makes this map exciting: this is the first road map of the county. The roads are pretty poor on such a tiny map! They correspond only in part to Ogilby routes; they are not a copy of Ogilby's routes in Hampshire.

Roads are marked with a double line or a single line, indicating their importance? Their engraving is inconfident, and is judged to have been made at a late stage in map making; roads run through place names. The roads shewn (an = for a double line, a  for a single; modern spellings) are:
(from Reading? Berkshire) = Basingstoke = Overton = (passing Whitchurch) Andover = (Wiltshire, towards Salisbury)

(from Reading? Berkshire)  Alton

(from Farnham? Surrey) = Alton = Alresford = (crosses a bridge into) Winchester = Southampton

Winchester  Bishops Waltham

Southampton  Romsey

Southampton (across Southampton Water)  Ringwood

Southampton (across Southampton Water)  Dibden  Lymington

(Surrey) = Petersfield = Portchester

Petersfield  (West Sussex, perhaps Chichester)
Road diagrams from maps of 1675 onwards.
Ogilby's influence on Morden's roads.

Morden's playing card map, Hampshire 1676
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