Map Notes -- OGILBY9.txt

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	NOTES from OGILBY'S TABLES OF ROADS, 1675
	These notes are taken from the itineraries, tables of roads, by John Ogilby, published in an early edition of Britannia, London, 1675. The pages have been studied from photocopies of items in a private collection.
	map type: HantsMap & Ogilby 1675
	Table of Roads
	One of the early editions of Britannia has tables of roads. These are attempts to lay out branching itineraries in tabular form instead of a diagram or map. For example the south west roads from London are in a table 7 columns wide. The centre column, read from bottom to top is a list of places from London to Senan ie Lands End, with the computed distance from one place to the next on the left, and the measured distance on the right. A fifth of the way up is Bagshot, and here a line is drawn to the column second on the left, where there is a brace, reading upwards from which are places along the branch route to Southampton, and then to Salisbury. On this route is Rumsey, from where a line connects to the next column leftwards where there is a route reading downwards to Winchester and Alresford, and a route reading upwards to Pool, and from there to Lemington. And so on; filling the seven columns on the page.
	John Ogilby gives some explanation:-
	The TABLE Explain'd
	THe midle Colume is the great Road, those on each side are Branches, or Cross-Roads; the Computed Distance, by Miles before, the Measure, by Miles and Furlongs after the Towns; Cities are in CAPITALS, Market-towns in Italique, and Post-towns mark'd thus [star] For Example, from Hodsdon to [star] Ware, a Market and Post-town, it is Computed 3 Miles, by Measure 3 Mile 2 furlongs; there is no Figure at [A l], because it is not a Mile from thence to Ware. ...
	Further Directions.
	THe Black Lines with a Brace, guide to the Branches: As, from London you are directed to Mile-end, for the Yarmouth Road: At Puckeridg, you have Issuing out the Roads to King's-Lyn and Norwich: The Numbers at the Town that begin each Branch, is the Distance from the Place that Road Issues: As, From York to Tadcaster is Computed 8 Mile, by Measure 9 Mile 6 Furl. Where Branches begin or end at small Towns, they are either a nearer or different Way: As, from Ferribridg to Boroughbridg by Fareborn, is nearer by 7 Miles than by York: You may come from Stilton to London by Aukinbury: And so of the Rest.
	JOHN OGILBY.
	Hampshire Roads
	The whole arrangement looks messy! but is quite readable and informative. An example:-

	The extracts below are of roads involving Hampshire: distances are not given as the photocopy is not clear enough to be sure; the star wil be shown by [s].
	Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the WEST and by SOUTH ROADS
	Extracting the Hamphire roads and presenting them as separate routes, matched to Ogilby's strip map plate numbers:-

	(plates 25, 26) from London; through [s] Stanes, Middlesex; and Bagshot, Surrey; then Black-water, [s] Hartley-Row, Merrard Green, Holsum Bridg, Hook, Newnham, [s] Basingstoke, Worting, Setherton, Whitchurch, Husboorn, [s] Andover, Midle Wallop, Hampshire; across Hurcoat Bridg, to Salisbury, Wiltshire; and beyond to Senan, Cornwall [Lands End].

	(plate 32) branch from Andover, through Monkton, Challerton, Hampshire; to Amesbury, Wiltshire, and beyond to Barstable, Devon AND from Barstable to Torrington, Devon AND from Torrington, Devon to Truro, Cornwall.

	(plate ) branch from [s] Basingstoke, through 3 Burrows, Cramborn, Sutton [Scotney], Stockbridg, Broughton, West Titherly, East Dean, Hampshire; then Dunkton, Wiltshire; through Cramborn to [s] Blandford, [s] Dorchester and [s] Weymouth, Dorset AND from Weymouth to Bristol..

	(plate ) branch from Bagshot, through Frimley and Farnham, Surrey; then Bentley Green, [s] Alton, Bighton Pars, Alresford, Sewers-water, Morsted, Twiford, Highbridg, Allbrook, Swaland, Borstwood, to [s] Southampton, Hampshire AND from Southampton, through Half-way Oak, Upton, Rumsey, Bluckpost, Cowsfield Green, Hampshire; to [s] Salisbury, Wiltshire.

	(plate ) branch from Rumsey, through Enfield, Hursley, Pit, [s] Winchester, Magdalenhouse, Sewers-Water to Alresford.

	(plate ) branch from Rumsey, through Owxbridg, Ragged Row, Castelmalwood, Bonner, Ringwood, Hampshire; then Palmers-bridg, to [s] Pool, Dorset AND from Pool, through Ifford, Christ-Church, Dorset; then Somerford, Milton, Evilton, Efford to Lemington, Hampshire.

	(plate 30) from London; through [s] Kingston, [s] Guildford, and [s] Godalming, Surrey; then Lippock, [s] Petersfield, Harndon, Cosham, Portsey-Bridg, Hilsey, Kingston, to [s] Portsmouth, Hampshire.
	Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the NORTH-WEST ROADS
	Extracting the Hamphire roads and presenting them as separate routes, matched to Ogilby's strip map plate numbers:-

	(plate ) from [s] Oxford, Oxfordshire; through [s] Abington, Milton, East Ilsley, Biddon, [s] Newbury, Berkshire; then Kingscleer, [s] Basingstoke, [s] Alton, Faringdonstreet, [s] Petersfield, Hampshire; to [s] Chichester, West Sussex.

	(plate ) branch from [s] Petersfield, through Langridge, Bordean, Bramdean, Cheriton, [s] Winchester, Hampshire AND from Winchester, through St. Crosses, Otterborn, to [s] Southampton, Hampshire.
	Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the WEST and by NORTH ROADS
	Extracting the Hamphire roads and presenting them as separate routes, matched to Ogilby's strip map plate numbers:-

	(plate 83) from [s] Oxford, Oxfordshire; crossing a corner of Hampshire?; through [s] Salisbury, Wiltshire; to Pool, Dorset.
	The branch route from Midhurst to Winchester of plate 39, London to Chichester, has the first part, from Midhurst to Petersfield, missing from these tables.

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NOTES from OGILBY'S TABLES OF ROADS, 1675

Table of Roads

Hampshire Roads

Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the WEST and by SOUTH ROADS

Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the NORTH-WEST ROADS

Mr. OGILBY's TABLE of the WEST and by NORTH ROADS