Map Notes -- JEFFRYS1.txt

	Map Notes

Jefferys 1775	NOTES from JEFFERYS'S ITINERARY, 1775
FA2000.60	These notes are taken from the road book, Thomas Jefferys's Itinerary or Travellers Companion, published by R Sayer and T Bennett, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1775. One strip map has been studied in detail, in the map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums service, item HMCMS:FA2000.60.
	map type: HantsMap & Jefferys 1775
	The strip map size is: wxh, sheet = 23.5x19.5cm; wxh, plate = 215x164mm; wxh, map = 208x155mm.
	Title Page
	The title page of the road book reads:-
	JEFFERYS's ITINERARY; OR TRAVELLERS COMPANION, THROUGH ENGLAND, WALES, and Part of SCOTLAND, CONTAINING All the DIRECT and Principal CROSS ROADS; WITH The Addition of every New Road, carefully collected from all the actual Surveys hitherto published. IMPROVED WITH MANY THOUSAND NAMES OF PLACES MORE THAN ARE IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION. TO WHICH ARE ADDED Copious INDEXES to all the ROADS and PLACES mentioned in the WORK, with their exact DISTANCES from LONDON.
	LONDON, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, Map and Print Sellers, No.53, FLEET-STREET. MDCCLXXV.
	Preface
	An introductory pages reads:-
	PREFACE
	THE many new Turnpike-Roads and communications between the different towns in this Island, few of which are taken notice of in any of the books of the English Roads, some even pointing out Roads which are no longer in a passable condition, was sufficient reason for attempting a new and more correct description. The plates for the following Work were originally intended for an account of these roads in french; but, falling into the hands of the late Mr.JEFFERYS and the editor, it was thought they might be the foundation of a work in English. And, to render it the most compleat and exact of any yet published on this useful plan, all materials on the subject have been consulted, and the best information possible procured from persons well acquainted with the Roads; so that it contains several thousand names of place son and adjacent to the Roads, which are not to be found in any other collection: and, besides its exhibiting a view of the principal Highways as they now exist, there are added all the smaller branches leading from the considerable Market-towns to each other, together with a very full Index, which, we flatter ourselves, will make this Book the best direction for travelling through this Kingdom.
	Itineraries
	The roads in the guide book have been summarised in a sketch map:-
	Route diagram: JEF1RTE.txt
	STRIP MAP FEATURES
	These notes are made from only one plate, 32, from the road book; a road across Hampshire.
title cartouche plain cartouche publisher distances from London	Printed upper centre is a plain rectangular cartouche:- From LONDON to BRIDGEWATER, commencing at Andover. see plate 25. The title is followed by a table of places and distances from London:- Andover ... 66 / Amesbury ... 79 / Warminster ... 97 1/2 / Maiden Bradley ... 105 / Bruton ... 114 / Weston Regis ... 125 / Ascot ... 132 1/2 / Bridgewater ... 142 This sheet is plate 32, the plate number printed top right. This strip map is equivalent to Ogilby's sheet 32; a branch off the London to Lands End road which is sheets 25, 26, etc. Printed at the top is:- Publish'd as the Act directs by R. Sayer & J.Bennett 16 Janry. 1775.
orientation north point up is destination	Each scroll of the strip map has a north point; N-S line, E-W line, North marked by a fleur de lys, east marked by a cross. Each scroll is printed showing a stretch of road from bottom to top.
scale	The maps have no scale line. But distances from London along the roads are marked by a dot and figure at each mile. The scale is very roughly:- 1 to 84000 1 1/3 miles to 1 inch
rivers ponds	Rivers might be drawn by a wiggly line crossing under the road. None on this sheet is labelled. A pond or lake might be shown by an outline with shading as at mile 101-102:- Sherewater head
relief hillocks	Hills beside the road are drawn by hillocks. These might be under the road presumably indicating descents and descents, which are not differentiated; or a whole series under the road indicating a ridge way:- or a whole series on either side the road indicating a valley route:- Some hills are labelled, eg:- Scratchbury Hill Cotley Hill both in Wiltshire, and Anstrow Hill without any hillock.
woods forests trees	Here and there are small tree symbols indicating woodland. Some of these are labelled, eg:- Amport Grove Other labels for woodland are not accompanied by trees, eg:- Selwood Forest
county	County boundaries are drawn by a dotted line across the road. The county in which the road lies is labelled down the side of the scroll, eg:- Hampshir WILTSHIRE The change of county is also labelled at the boundary, eg:- Enter Wiltshire
settlements	Settlements are shown by blocks or groups of blocks by the roads, or perhaps by some sort of circle symbol with added elements. Places are differentiated by the size of the group of blocks and/or by style of labelling.
town	group of blocks by the orad; labelled in upright lowercase text, eg:- Andover

village	blocks; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Monkston A village off the route is more likely to have a symbol, block, circle, and cross, labelled as:- Abbots Ann Ch. A circle with a flag marks:- Way hill

roads distances from London	The road is drawn by a double line, solid for fenced, dotted for unfenced. The road runs up the middle of each strip, a rectangular 'scroll'. Distances from start, London for the main routes, is marked at 1 mile intervals by a spot in the road, and a figure. Junctions are drawn clearly, often labelled with their destination, large or small, eg;- to Winchester to Wallop and perhaps with the plate number of another strip map, eg:- to Salisbury Pl.26 at the junction half a mile on the west side of Andover. Some side routes are noted at the bottom of the map:- A Road goes from Warminster to Heytsbury 8 1/2 distant. & another to Shipton Mallet 10 1/2 distant. From Bruton a Road goes to Exeter and another to Tiverton.
miscellaneous
mills windmills	Windmills might be shown by a drawing of a post mill. Some are named, eg:- Walton Mill in Somerset.
antiquities tumuli henges	Hillocks a mile beyond Amesbury on the way towards Stonehenge are labelled:- Burrows or Small Hills An array of shaded blocks portrays a henge:- Stonehenge remarkable Remains of Antiquity

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	Martin Norgate & MN: 3.2.2004 last edit: 8.2.2004

NOTES from JEFFERYS'S ITINERARY, 1775

Title Page

Preface

Itineraries

STRIP MAP FEATURES