NOTES from BOWEN'S ROAD MAPS, 1720s

Bowen, Emanuel & Owen, John: 1720 (etc): Britannia Depicta & Ogilby Improved: Bowles, Thomas & Bowen, Emanuel (London)

Bowen, Emanuel & Graham, Frank (ed): 1970 (reprint) & 1720: Britannia Depicta & Ogilby Improved: Graham, Frank (6 Queen Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)(reprint):: ISBN 0 900409 39 8; Dewey 942.071; good introduction by J B Harley

Bowen, Emanuel: 1979 (facsimile) & 1731 (source): Britannia Depicta & Ogilby Improved: Britanni Publications (21 Broomhill Road, Tiverton, Devon):: ISBN 0 906656 00 1: complete facsimile of 1731 edition, reproduction of text is not good

TITLE PAGE

BRITANNIA DEPICTA / OR / OGILBY improv'd; / being a Correct Coppy of Mr. OGILBY's / ACTUAL SURVEY of all ye Direct & Principal Cross / ROADS in ENGLAND and WALES: / Wherin are exactly Delineated & Engraven, All ye / CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SEATS &c. / scituate on or near the ROADS, with their respective / Distances in MEASURED and COMPUTED MILES. / And to render this WORK universally Usefull & agreeable, [beyond / any of it's kind] are added in a clear & most Compendious Method /

1, A full & particular Description & Account of all the CITIES, BOROUGH-TOWNS, TOWNS-CORPORATE &c. their ARMS. Antiquity, Charters, Privileges, Trade, Rarities, &c. with / suitable Remarks on all places of Note drawn from the / best HISTORIANS and ANTIQURIES - / By INO. OWEN of the MIDD: TEMPLE Gent. /

2, The ARMS of the PEERS of this REALM who derive / their Titles from places lying on, or near the ROADS /

3, The ARMS of all ye BISHOPRICKS & DEANARIES, their found / -dation, Extent, Yearly-Value, Number of Parishes &c. /

4, The ARMS, & a succinct Account of both UNIVERSITIES & their respective COLLEGES, their foundations, Fellowships &c. /

Lastly Particulars & Correct MAPS of all ye Counties of SOUTH BRITAIN; with a / Summary description of each County, its Circumference, Number of Acres, Boro. & Market / Towns & Parishes, Air, Soil, Com~odities, Manufactures & what each Pays in ye [ ] Aid Ec. /

The Whole for its Compendious Variety & Exactness, preferable to all other Books of / Roads hitherto Published of Proposed; And calculated not only for the direction of / the Traveller [as they are] but the general use of the Gentlemen and Tradesmen /

[ye 4th. Edition.] By EMAN: BOWEN Engraver / LONDON Printed for & Sold by Tho: Bowles Print & Map Seller next ye Chapter House / iin St. Pauls Church-Yard & I. Bowles Print & map Seller over against [Stocks] Market [ ]

PREFACE PAGES

A Table of all the ROADS contain'd in this BOOK

Having dispos'd all the Principal ROADS of ENGLAND & WALES into 4 Classes, under ye distinction / & order following Vizt Independant & Dependant Direct Roads, Principal & Accidental Cross Roads.

The first containing all the Direct Inde- / -pendant Roads from London are these -

from London to -

11 Lands End _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 59.

13 Portsmouth _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 71.

The Second containing all the Direct De- / -pendant Roads, being Such as at Several / distances branch out of ye former Independant / Roads, are these -

from London to -

15 Barnstable _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 77

19 Chichester _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 95

28 Southampton _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 128

30 Weymouth _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 134

The Third Class contains all ye Principal / Independant Cross Roads, observing ye Alpha / betical order from ye Initial City or Town are these -

55 Oxford to Chichester _ _ _ 215

57 Oxford to Salisbury _ _ _ 221

The 4th Class containing all ye Accidental Cross Roads / i.e. Such Roads as are not in a Direct Linee but com- / prise either 2 or 3 Horizontal bearings which are these

70 London to Pool _ _ _ _ _ _ 262

The Title of every Road is a Distinct Page; to each of / which is annex'd a Map of ye County wherin the Initial / or Boundary City Town or Place lies [for the nost- / part] or else Some part of the description of ye Road / itself. /

The beginning of the Road is always at the bottom on / the left Hand, in the Page following the Title; whence you / proceed upwards from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 &c Miles untill you come / to the Top of the first Collum; and so on in like man~er / from the Bottom of the 2d. 3d. &c. beginning in every / Page on the left Hand as before directed -

The Black Dots or Points in the middle of the Road, / are the Stations of the Miles, with their respective / nos. affixed to them.

When any other Road Crosses or goes out of the Road / described there is an opening with the name of the / Place to which it goes: And in your progress you meet / with Rills, Brooks, Rivers, Bridges, [the Plan of / the Road shewing whether built of Wood, Brick, / or Stone, No. of Arches contain'd in each if of any / Note] Woods, Trees, Mountains and Hills [shew- / ing their Ascent or Descent as they really are, ve- / ry Naturally] The Plan of the Road having at the / Same time the Ichnography of all Citys, Towns / &c. and the Compass in each Collum the True / Bearings both of the Road itSelf and of all the Towns / and Places that offer themselves to your View on either / Side of it. The Road is all the Way bounded with 2 Paral- / lel Black Lines if inclosed or Hedg'd in on both sides, or / else if open, with 2 Parallel Dotted Lines, or lastly, if bound- / ed or Hedged in on One Side and open on the other, with / a Black Line and a Dotted Line Parallel to it.

The name of the Country the Road passes through is Engrav'd / on each Collum.

In the Margin or some other convenient Place of every Page / is likewise Engraved a Description of the City's, Boroughs, / [with the Arms of all such that have any] Corporations, / Market Towns, and whatever is remarkable, with figures / referring to the places where they are to be found in the Plan / of that Road: but to the intent that the Reader might / readily find out any place describ'd in this Book, we have / hereunto subjoyn'd an Alphabettical Table of all such places, / And wheras in the whole course of these Roads there are / many places repeated often in the Plan: The Reader / must therefore have recourse to the aforesaid Table to / direct him to the place he wants, it being describ'd only in / One.

Note The following Table refers both to ye Arms & ye descripti- / on of every City and Borough Town at Once, they being insepe- /rably connected together throughout this Book.

A Table of ye Cities Towns &c. describ'd in this Book.

Cities Towns &c. Page

Alton _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 217

Alton _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 129

Andover _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 78

Basingstoke _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 61

Christ Church _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 204

Limington _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 263

Malwood _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 263

Petersfield _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 96

Portsmouth _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 73

Ringwood _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 263

Rumsey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 263

Southampton _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 129

Stockbridge _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 125

Whitchurch _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 60

Winchester _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 97

A Table of ye Peers Arms

Dukes

Marquesses

Winchester _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 97

Earls

Viscounts

Barons

N.B. The Arms of the / Peers who derive Titles / from any of the Counties of / South Britain are placed / in ye Maps of those Counties

See a Table of all the / Counties in ye following Pages

A Table of all the MAPS contain'd in the BOOK

Hampsh. _ _ _ _ _ _ 262

NB. The following Caracters in each of the Maps here referred to do denote [ ] Bishoprick / [ ] Borough Towns. [ ] Market Towns. [ ] Towns of less Note and Villages.

All England & Wales in relation to Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is divided into 2 Provinces, Canterbury and / York. The ArchBishop of Canterbury is stiles Primate of all England & Metropolitan; & ye ArchBishop of York / Primate of England & Metropolitan. Under these are 24 Bishops, 21 under Canterbury & 3 under York. / The Names of ye BP.ricks belonging to each are set down in ye following Table wch. also refers to ye places where / both ye BP.ricks & Deanaries are severally describ'd.

Winchester [b'rick see here][deanary see p.97]

The Bishoprick of WINCHESTER

[coat of arms]

Contains the Counties of / Surrey & Southampton / & ye Isles of Wight, Jersey, / Guernsey, Sark, & Alder- / ney, & therein 386 Pars. / Was founded by Kinegil- / fas K. of ye West Saxons, AD / 650 St. Birinethe first BP. / Value 3193~=4s=7d=1/4: / Chief Seats Farnham Castle in / Surrey, Wolvesey House in Winchester, Chel- / sea House in Middlx.

NB, the Arms &c. on either Side of this Table / are placed in this Page for want of convenient / Room in the Places where they ought to have been inserted.

Advertisment

Whereas in this Work there is an omission of Some / particulars set forth in ye Proposals; ye Undertakers / have Since ye publishing ye said Proposals been ad- / vised to omit ye same as immaterial, & doubt not but / ye Subscribers will think Such omission amply re / compensed by Several very material [& more / expencive] Additions never proposed.