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miscellaneous
Senex's Hampshire 1719-57 |
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John Senex's strip maps show incidental features beside the
road, what the tourist might or should notice, perhaps.
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windmills: Plate 30 mile 61, a post mill at
Charlton, Hampshire
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paper mills: At pl.52 mile 44 on the Wey just over the
border from Farnham, Surrey:-
Paper mill
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fortifications: A polygonal artillery fort is clearly
indicated at the bridge to Portsea Island, on pl.30 mile 69.
He does not show fortifications around Portsmouth.
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schools: Eggars School at Alton is on pl.54 mile 50:-
Free School
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Three tumuli are drawn at Popham Beacons in the north of
Hampshire, pl.57 mile 56.
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posts: On pl.54 mile 11 at Bluck on the Heath
a post
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crosses: On pl.52 mile 94 is a cross by the side of
the road.
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chapels: Plate 89 mile 42 shows the
Holy Ghost Chapel
on the outskirts of Basingstoke.
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inns: Inns are not systematically shown, perhaps the
existence of this essential for travellers could be taken for
granted. Plate 52 mile 52'2 at a junction, signs:-
to Skippords Inn
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smithies: Blacksmiths, or rather farriers, are not marked
often. But: on at least one segment of a Senex route there is
a Smith shop carefully indicated in several places. This is
on pl.35 in Somerset on the road from London to Bath and Wells, a
smithy at Dunderton 113, Faringdon 118+, and Chewton Mendip 122;
perhaps smithies were so rare hereabouts that Senex thought they had
to be indicated, though the provision of a farrier is taken for
granted elsewhere.
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