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Map Notes
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Kentish 1823
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NOTES from KENTISH'S GREAT MAP OF HAMPSHIRE, 1823
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FA1999.33
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These notes are made from sheet 36 of a lithograph map of
Hampshire, by Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish, Winchester, Hampshire,
about 1823-24. The map studied is in the Map Collection of
Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA1999.33
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map type: HantsMap & Kentish 1823
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MAP FEATURES
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title
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Printed at the top is:-
PART OF KENTISH'S GREAT MAP OF
HAMPSHIRE.
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map maker
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Printed at the bottom is:-
Drawn from Actual survey & Published by
& for Nat. Lipscomb Kentish, Winchester.
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scale
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The map has no scale line. An estimate of the scale was made
by measuring a length of road delimited by milestones. 2 miles =
247.5mm, giving a scale about:-
1 to 13000
assuming a modern mile, about:-
5 inches to 1 mile
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watermark
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The paper is Whatman paper with date 1823, watermark:-
J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1823
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ONE SHEET
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Only one sheet of this map series is in the HMCMS Map
Collection; no one else seems to have any other sheet, or even to
have heard much of Nathaniel Kentish! It is suggested that the
single sheet is the only sheet ever produced; that this was a
trial sheet, perhaps to show to potential subscribers in a
prospectus for the whole project, which never happened.
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The title on the map includes the phrase 'part of' which would
not usually be found on a sheet from a multisheet series; the
usage supports the idea that this is a trial sheet.
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The area covered by the sheet is just south of Winchester:
part of St Cross, Winchester; Chilcomb; Compton, Compton and
Shawford; Otterbourne; Twyford; Owslebury; etc.
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The scale of the map is almost 5 inches to 1 mile. This is
unreasonably large for the period to which the project belongs;
it is not surprising that the project appears to have failed to
find support.
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Sheet Corners
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The four corners of Kentish's sheet were located as well as
possible in coordinates of the National Grid (using OS 2.5 inch
Pathfinder sheet 1264, Winchester South and Chandler's Ford,
SU42/52).
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top left SU44122887
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top right SU54012894
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bottom left SU44292100
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bottom right SU53932102
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For simplicity take this as putting Kentish's sheet centred at
SU49092496 say SU491250, width 9.77Km = 6.07miles ie 6 miles,
height 7.90Km = 4.91miles ie 5 miles (being naive about errors!)
The locating of the corners is not accurate enough to make
deductions about the projection, or orientation of the sheet in
relation to the National Grid.
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Using this sheet as base a grid of sheets was constructed over
an outline sketch map of Hampshire, including areas now in
Dorset. This gives us an idea of Kentish's overall plan, his
'index sheet' for the project (image file KEN1NDX.gif which has
sheet 36 picked out bold, pixel reference 155,145,188,170). Two
suppositions may be made from this index sheet:-
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Supposition: Kentish laid out his sheets to capture the edges
of the county at the bottom left at his desired scale of about 5
inches to 1 mile; dubious. An alternative plan would have been to
ensure that Winchester was centred in a sheet; on the actual plan
Winchester is at the very bottom of the above the trial sheet,
with parts of the outskirts on the trial sheet.
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Supposition: Kentish labelled sheets from top to bottom, left
to right, ie:-
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5 |
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The trial sheet can be MADE TO COME OUT as number 36, to
confirm the uncertain reading of the smudged sheet number.
Numbering in other ways cannot make this sheet come out to 36 or
anything near; nor to the 16 mentioned in newspaper notices.
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There is the wild thought that sheets were numbered out of
spatial sequence, but in the sequence of intended surveying; this
seems pretty unlikely.
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Supposition: there would have been about 64 sheets in the
complete Great Map of Hampshire. Queries (?) are shown in the
sheet diagram where there could have been more sheets; and, do
notice that the county boundary used here is very inexact.
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LITHOGRAPHY
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Lithography was not the usual way of printing maps at the
period.
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The process was invented by Aloys Senefelder, in Bavaria,
about 1798. It was kept a secret until patented in England, 1801,
and was only well established as a printing method by about 1825.
Kentish appears to have been ahead of his time.
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(There was a lithographic printer in Winchester by 1825.)
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Some coments about lithography have been received from Ian
Mumford who has not seen the actual map, via Peter Collier
(Portsmouth University). The size of the litho stone, at least
30x25inches, is large but not exceptional. The Admiralty were
experimenting with stones 3x3feet about this time. The map is
probably printed by from two stones; one for the hill hachures
and the other for the line detail. The map might well have been
printed in London.
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map type Kentish 1823 -- menu of resources |
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Nathaniel Kentish -- KEN1BIO.txt
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newspaper extracts -- KEN1NWS.txt
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source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.33 -- map |
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list of map notes |
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HantsMap Notes -- KENTISH1.txt
MN: 1.3.1999
last edit: 3.2.2000
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