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Kitchin 1767
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NOTES from KITCHIN'S POST CHAISE COMPANION, 1767
FA1999.138  
FA1999.138.0  
FA1999.138.25  
FA1999.138.30  
FA1999.138.33  
FA1999.138.41  
FA1999.138.50  
FA1999.138.55  
FA1999.138.58  
FA1999.138.91  
FA1999.138.93  
 These notes are made from a copy of Kitchin's Post Chaise Companion, a road book of strip maps, 1767. The maps are closely derived from strip maps by Senex, 1719-57, which in turn derive from Ogilby's strip maps of 1675. The road book studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA1999.138 - the maps involving Hampshire documented listed separately as FA1999.138.25 etc, using the plate numbers.
Detail notes are only about Hampshire, and the part of Dorset that was then Hampshire. The style of observation can be a model for research about other parts of the country.
map type: HantsMap & Kitchin 1767

ROAD BOOK FEATURES
title page    
The title page of the road book reads:-
KITCHIN'S / Post-Chaise Companion, / THROUGH / ENGLAND and WALES; / CONTAINING / All the Ancient and New Additional ROADS, / WITH / Every Topographical Detail relating thereto. / BY THOMAS KITCHIN, / For the Use of TRAVELLERS, on One Hundred and Three Copper Plates. / LONDON: / Printed for ROBERT SAYER, at No 53, in Fleet-street; JOHN BOWLES, at No , in Cornhill; and / CARINGTON BOWLES, at No 69, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1767. Price 7s. 6d.

index of places    
table of distances    
There is-
An INDEX of all the Cities, Market-Towns, and principal Villages, on the Direct Roads; shewing their respective Distance from London in measured Miles; in what County situate, and the Page in which they are to be found. These Distances are measured from the STANDARD in CORNHILL, near the ROYAL EXCHANGE.
The index is formatted in four columns:-
Page / Towns. / County. / Miles
with entries on the pattern:-
55 / Alton / Hampsh. / 66 1/4
There is also a:-
A TABLE of the CROSS ROADS. Shewing the measured Distances from one Town to another, and the Total Distance from the Town where the Road begins, to the Town at the End of it.
The table is formatted in three columns:-
P. / Towns. / M.
with entries after a heading, on the pattern:-
-- SOUTHAMPT.
55 to SALISBURY . 25 1/2
-- viz. to
-- Rumsey .............. 8 1/4
-- White Parish ....... 9
-- Whaddon ............ 3 3/4
-- Salisbury ............ 4 1/2

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button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138 -- road book
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.0 -- road map
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.25 -- strip map (pl.25)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.30 -- strip map (pl.30)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.33 -- strip map (pl.33)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.41 -- strip map (pl.41)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.50 -- strip map (pl.50)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.55 -- strip map (pl.55)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.58 -- strip map (pl.58)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.91 -- strip map (pl.91)
button source item -- HMCMS:FA1999.138.93 -- strip map (pl.93)
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HantsMap Notes -- KITCHIN3.txt
MN: 12.7.1999
last edit: 22.6.2001