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Gent Mag 1765
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FA1999.124:- 

Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from London to the Lands End, and the Road from Exeter to Truro, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, London, about 1765.
London; Staines, Middlesex; Egham, Bagshot, Surrey; Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, Hampshire; Salisbury, Wiltshire; Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Dorset; Yeovil, Somerset; Axminster, Honiton, Exeter, Plymouth, Devon; Looe, St Austel, to Senan and the Lands End, Cornwall.
Exeter, Tavistock, Devon; Liskeard, to Truro, Cornwall.
map feature:-  not coloured & title cartouche & up is destination & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & settlements & roads & distances from London & streets
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche An Accurate MAP of the ROAD from LONDON to the LANDS END in CORNWALL, Passing thro' SALISBURY, EXETER, PLYMOUTH &c. / The ROAD from EXETER to TRURO.
inscription:-  printed -on- top left Gent: Mag:
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom NB: The Distances are Measur'd from Hide Park Corner.
map type:-  HantsMap -- Gent Mag 1765
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 47.5x20.5cm
wxh, map = 434x175mm

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MN: 4.10.2001
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