Map Collection
Blome 1681
FA1999.90:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, Mapp of Hantshire ie Hampshire, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, by Richard Blome, 1681, engraved by Richard Palmer; edition published in England Exactly Described, by Thomas Taylor, Golden Lion, Fleet Street, 1715.
	Plate number 16, engraved top left and right.
	This is one of the earliest maps of Hampshire to show roads; a selection of those published by John Ogilby, 1675.
	The scale line is very clearly wrong! its '4 miles' is nearer 9.5; the scale of the map is better estimated from distances between towns. From that the scale line looks as if it is an 8 mile scale, not 4, the map mile being an Old English Mile = 1.21 statute miles.
map feature:-	title cartouche & scroll cartouche & table of hundreds & coast shaded & compass rose & scale line & rivers & relief & hillocks & forests & trees & parks & county & hundreds & settlements & roads & fortifications
inscription:-	printed -on- title cartouche, upper left A MAPP of / HANTSHIRE / With its Hundreds
inscription:-	printed -on- lower right R P. Sculp
map type:-	HantsMap -- Blome 1681
dimension:-	scale = 1 to 490000 ? (1 to 489761 from town positions usung DISTTAB.exe)
	List of Map Collection
	map notes -- BLOME2.txt
	map type Blome 1681 -- class record in checklist
	map type Blome 1681 -- map type, menu of resources
images:-
BLM2.jpg:-	see above
	images © Jean M Norgate 2004
town names:-	Hantshire Hampshire map name modern name Alton Alton Andover Andover Basingstoke Basingstoke Bush Waltham Bishops Waltham Christchurch Christchurch Fareham Fareham Fordingbridge Fordingbridge Gosport Gosport Havant Havant Kingescler Kingsclere Lymington Lymington Alresford Alresford Odyam Odiham Petesfeild Petersfield Portesmouth Portsmouth Ringwood Ringwood Rumsey Romsey Southampton Southampton Stokbridg Stockbridge Whitchurch Whitchurch Winchester Winchester
	MN: 12.3.2002