Map Notes -- NORDEN1.txt

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Norden 1607	NOTES from NORDEN'S MAP of HAMPSHIRE, 1607
FA1996.22	These notes are made from a map of Hampshire by John Norden, engraved by W Hole, 1595, published in the last Latin edition of Camden's Britannia, 1607. The map studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA1996.22.
	map type: HantsMap & Norden 1607
	Earlier notes about the map have been published in:-
	Norgate, Martin & Norgate, Jean: 1997: Notes from Norden's Map of Hampshire: Hampshire County Council Museums Service:: ISBN 1 85975 131 8
	Norden's manuscript for the map is in the British Library, part of AddMSS 31.835. An printed version of this drawing may have been published about 1600 but is more likely to be seen as published by Stent or Overton later in the century.
	Norden's ms map -- NORDEN2.txt
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title strapwork cartouche	The title cartouche at the top left of the map is decorated with strapwork. This decoration is only on the sides towards the body of the map, right and lower sides, but is continued beside the tables of symbols and hundreds. HAMSHIRE / OLIM PARS BELGARVM Camden's work is arranged by the old british tribes; Hampshire was the land of the Belgae.
orientation compass rose	Compass rose and scale line are combined, together with an inscription of the map maker's and engraver's names. Jo: Norden descripsit WHole sculp The cardinal, half cardinal, and false points of the compass are indicated, north is marked with a fleur de lys. The cardinal points are named:- SEPT Septentriones: refering to the seven stars that make up the constellation of The Bear, or Plough, that is a pointer for the Pole Star in the North ORI Oriens: from the Latin orior, to rise, where the sun rises in the East MERI Meridiens: middle of the day, where the sun is then in the South OCCI Occidens: from the Latin occido, to fall or set, where the sun sets in the West
scale line scale old english mile	The scale line of 10 miles is chequered in half miles. The 10 miles = 66.4 mm, giving a scale 1 to 243300, on the bad assumption of a modern statute mile. The map scale is about:- 1 to 240000 4 miles to 1 inch An estimate of scale can be made from town positions, comparing known town-town distances, using DISTAB.exe. The map scale is about:- 1 to 380000 6 miles to 1 inch The map maker's mile is an:- Old English Mile = 1.24 statute miles
index grid	This map has no index grid. Calculations have been made to overlay the National Grid system on the map, see:-
	see:- NRD1NGR.txt
table of symbols	The map has a table of symbols, upper left. Settlements are positioned by a dot and cirlce, and distinguished by additional elements. MARKET TOWNES [dot, circle, buildings] Parishes & places of cure [dot, circle, tower or building] Hamlets & villages [dot, circle, a short vertical line] Chappels of ease [dot, circle, half cross] ie a short vertical line, with a horizontal line to one side Howses of bestericcite [dot, circle, tower either side] Ordinarie howses of name [dot, circle] Places ruinate and decaid [dot, circle, cancelled by a slash] Castles [two towers with a flag] Old trenches and fortes [hatched circle, and flag] Monasticall places [dot, circle, and cross] Beacons or beaukens [posts on a hill] Norden's manuscript for the map is in the British Library, part of AddMSS 31.835:- A Chorographical Description of the severall Shires and islands of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Weighte, Gurnesey and Jersey, performed by the traveyle and view of John Norden, 1595 His original list of symbols included:- ... Howses of best receite, Ordinarie howses of means, ... Old trenches and fortes, ... Woody Places, Devision for Hundreds, Rivers, Bridges, and Parkes The 1607 edition is slightly different.
sea area sea pecked sea monsters ships	The sea is pecked. A number of ships decorate the sea area; and there is a monstrous fish N off the Isle of Wight.
coast line coast shaded	The coast line is shaded.
coastal defence castles	The coastal defence castles are drawn and labelled:- Hurst castle Calshot cast Netley cast St: Androw cast Ruynes of Haselworth castle South cast
rivers bridges	Rivers are drawn but not named. Braiding might be suggested, for example south of Stockbridge. The rivers that are shown can mostly be indentified, and include the major rivers of the county. Bits of some streams look as if they have been detached and joined to others? A few bridges are marked. For example at Fordingbridge. The river system at Winchester is more complicated:- and the stream emerge from the city walls.
relief hillocks	Relief is suggested by hillocks. which are grouped in various ways.
beacons	Beacons are shown as a hill with posts or ?flames on top. Three of the beacons are named on the map:- Selborne beak [SU2500] Toothillbeac [SU3818] 3 Parow beacons [SU5044 = Three Barrows] The other beacons shown are:- W of Hythe [SU3703] W of Pitt [SU4230] WNW of Boteley [SU4712] SW of Burghclere [SU4758] NW of Extone [SU5723] W of Farlington [SU6504] SE of Bramshott [SU8754] This map was drafted in 1595, only a few years after the Armada, whose presence off our shores was signalled by beacons. Norden must have been aware how important beacons were for defensive communication. The number of posts is always three; though on other maps the number varies and is thought to show how many beacons there were in a sophisticated system.
woods forests trees	Forests are indicated by groups of outsize pictures of trees. A number of these are labelled, eg:- New Forrest Forrest of Beare which is East Bere Forest Weste Forrest which is West Bere Forest One single tree is named, the:- Lomer Ash
parks	Parks are shown by a fence of palings in a ring; there are several examples around Basingstoke. Most parks can be identified, and some are lebelled, eg:- Fremantle pk Barne pk which is Beaurepaire Park
county swash lettering	The county boundary is a dotted line. Swash lettering is used to fill space outside Hampshire, naming the adjacent counties. Eg:- PARTE OF WILTSHIRE
hundreds table of hundreds	The hundred boundaries are shown by dotted lines, and the areas numbered to a key at the side of the map. Beware that some hundreds have detached parts. The key is just a list, eg:- HUNDREDES Crundall hundred -- 1 Odiam -- -- -- -- - 2 Alton -- -- -- -- - 3 Norden has put Bosmere over the top of what is now Bermondspit. Bosmere, today, is Hayling Island which has no number on the map, plus part of Portsdown. Norden has 13 on the map where it should be 31 in central Hampshire. Someone has coloured the hundred boundaries on this copy of the map, opinion is that this is comparatively recent, wrongly in places - be careful how you follow the lines. Further notes:-
	see:- NRD1HUN.txt
settlements	Settlements are positioned by a dot and circle; additional elements grade place by type, as described in the table of symbols, see above.
city	Town walls and towers can be seen around Winchester, as also Portsmouth and Southampton.

town

village

hamlet

house	of best reception, and:- an ordinary house.

ruins

miscellaneous
mills windmills	A post mill is drawn at Clanfield.
antiquities hillforts	The table of symbols has a symbol for earthworks:- Old trenches and fortes This is a hatched circle much like the tumulus symbol commonly used today, plus a flag. Some of the sites are named, eg:- Butserhill Dunbury hill Other sites can be identified, eg:- Bury Hill site, Hengistbury Head site, Beacon Hill site at Burghclere, etc.
antiquities roman towns	Some roman sites are named, for example:- Venta Vindonum Clausentum
religious houses	Monastical places, a cross on a place mark. Chapels of ease, half a cross on a place mark.
copperas works	Copperas mines are drawn and labelled at:- Alomechine Copperas house Bascombe Copperas house

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NOTES from NORDEN'S MAP of HAMPSHIRE, 1607

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