Map Notes -- GENTMAG.txt

	Map Notes

Gent Mag 1765	NOTES from THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
B1999.518.1765.7.1 B1999.518.1765.13.1 B1999.518.1772.3.2 B1999.518.1775.7.1 B1999.518.1778.4.1	Issues of The Gentleman's Magazine in the mid-late 18th century were searched for maps, in particular looking for a known strip road map with a section in Hampshire. The issues are bound volumes in the Library Collection of Hampshire CC Museum Service; regarded as 'wall paper' - I quote the librarian. Bound volumes include cover pages at the front and a supplement at the back of each annual volume.
	map type: HantsMap & Gent Mag 1765
	map type: HantsMap & Gent Mag 1770s
	VOLUME TITLE PAGE (1765)
	THE / Gentleman's Magazine, / AND / Historical Chronicle / VOLUME XXXV. / For the YEAR M.DCC.LXV. / PRODESSE & DELECTARE / E PLURIBUS UNUM. / By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. / LONDON: / Printed for D. HENRY and R. CAVE, at ST JOHN'S GATE.
	This title is pretty constant through the volumes seen. About 1770 the printer was R. Baldwin, 47 Paternoster Row, but this reverts to Henry and Cave in 1771.
	The page size of the magazine is about 13x21cm. Most of the maps found are larger, folded to be bound in.
	MONTH TITLE PAGE (Jan 1765)
	The Gentleman's Magazine / ... / For January 1765. / CONTAINING / More in Quantity and greater Variety than any other Book of the Kind and price. / ... / With a very accurate Map of the Road from London to Chester, Measured from the Royal / Exchange, in which the exact Distance from Town to Town is set down; the post and / cross Roads pointed out; the Market Towns and Cities distinguished, and the principal / Villages adjoining the Road properly marked. / By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. / LONDON: Printed by D Henry, at St JOHN'S GATE.
	Generally, each issue with a tipped-in map has a similar statement. July 1765 has:-
	With a new and accurate Map of the Roads from London to Portsmouth, to Chichester, to / Southampton, and to Pool, and of the Road from Southampton to Winchester; in which the / exact Distance from Town is set down; the post and cross Roads pointed out; the Cities / and market Towns distinguished; and the principal Seats, Parks, and Villages adjoining the to / Road properly expressed.
	The 1765 supplement makes it clear that 1765 is the start of this series of maps:-
	WITH ... a large and accurate Map of the Road from / London to the Land's-End, in Cornwall; passing through Salisbury, Exeter, Plymouth, &c. / Comprising, likewsie, the Road from Exeter to Truro. -N.B. This is a part of a new / Sett of Maps, of the Roads, which will be continued till compleated.
	ROAD STRIP MAPS
	Map were found in the following volumes (the search was restricted to road strip maps and canal maps). Each map has several roads on it, some are direct roads from London, some are branches off a direct road making another direct route, some are cross roads jooining town to town, etc. After a once each two months start the maps do not seem to have been issued very regularly. Issues from the 1760s to 1783 were searched.
January 1765	London to Chester
March 1765	London to Bristol Chippenham to Bath Beckington to Bath Bristol to Bath Bristol to Worcester
May 1765	London to Dover Canterbury to Dover London to Rye London to Hythe Canterbury to Margate Isle of Thanet Ramsgate to Deal
July 1765	London to Portsmouth London to Chichester London to Southampton New Alresford to Poole Southampton to Winchester
September 1765	London to Aberystwyth Shipston to Worcester Bristol to Exeter
Supplement 1765	London to Lands End Exeter to Truro
April 1766	London to Harwich London to St Edmundsbury London to Yarmouth
June 1766	London to York
August 1766	York to Berwick Ferrybridge to Boroughbridge York to Scarborough
October 1766	London to Carlisle Carlisle to Berwick
December 1766	London to Flamborough Head Pekirk to Boston Lincoln to Boston
February 1769	London to Cambridge &c
March 1770	Banbury to Bridgnorth Banbury to Campden
May 1770	Abington to Monmouth
1773	missing, not searched
Supplement 1774	Ferrybridge to Barnard Castle Ferrybridge to Wakefield Stony Stratford to Derby Loughborough to Nottingham Nottingham to Grimsby
February 1775	London to St David's
July 1775	Andover to Barnstable Barnstable to Truro
August 1775	Meriden to Welshpool Shrewsbury to Holywell Shrewsbury to Chester Chester to Holyhead
September 1775	York to Chester Manchester to Derby York to Whitby York to Lancaster
Supplement 1775	Puckeridge to Norwich Puckeridge to Kings Lynn Oxford to Cambridge
1780 and 1782	missing, not searched
	MAP FEATURES
map maker	The maps mostly have no mention of map maker or engraver. The map for the supplement 1774 has:- Thos. Bowen sculpt. Fleet street And this occours on maps for February, August and September 1775. Thomas was the son of Emanuel Bowen. The maps are pretty consistent in style - though this could be from the instructions given by the editor or from copying - and might all be ascribed to a Bowen, perhaps Emanuel.
	CANAL MAPS
	The canal maps appear in the issues around 1771-72. The two maps which concern Hampshire are listed below; other canal maps are ignored.
March 1772	A PLAN / of the proposed / NAVIGABLE CANAL, / from ANDOVER to REDBRIDGE. / in the / COUNTY of SOUTHAMPTON. / Surveyd in 1770. / ... / J Lodge Sculp.
April 1778	A PLAN of the Intended Navigable Canal from BASINGSTOKE in the County of Southampton, to the River Wey in the County of Surrey, / Surveyed in 1777.

	map type Gent Mag 1765 -- menu of resources
	source item -- HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.7.1 -- strip map
	source item -- HMCMS:B1999.518.1765.13.1 -- strip map
	source item -- HMCMS:B1999.518.1772.3.2 -- canal map
	source item -- HMCMS:B1999.518.1775.7.1 -- strip map
	source item -- HMCMS:B1999.518.1778.4.1 -- canal map

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NOTES from THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

VOLUME TITLE PAGE (1765)

MONTH TITLE PAGE (Jan 1765)

ROAD STRIP MAPS

MAP FEATURES

CANAL MAPS