Map Notes -- POST2.txt

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Post Office 1890	NOTES from the GENERAL POST OFFICE CIRCULATION MAP, 1890
FA2001.173	These notes are taken from the General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, published by Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London, 1890. The map studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA2001.173.
	map type: HantsMap & Post Office 1890
	The map size is:- wxh, sheet = 89x111cm, folded = 18x28cm; wxh, map = 867x1067mm.
	Note that detail comments will be made for Hampshire only.
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title	Printed upper right is:- 1890 GENERAL POST OFFICE CIRCULATION MAP FOR ENGLAND & WALES.
map maker	Printed bottom right is:- Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London
orientation up is N	The map has no compass rose or latitude and longitude scales. It is printed with north at the top of the page.
scale line scale	Printed below the title and table of symbols is a:- Scale of Statute Miles. The scale has 30 miles marked at 10 mile intervals, plus 10 miles leftwards divided at miles, marked at 5 miles intervals. The 30+10 miles = 99.7 mm gives a scale 1 to 645675; the map scale is about:- 1 to 650000 10 miles to 1 inch
table of symbols	Printed below the title is an:- EXPLANATION Railways used by the Post Office [bold line, and a line for a station] Railways not used [double light lines] Railways in Progress [double light dotted lines] Mail Coaches & Mail Carts [line tinted red] Stage Coaches & Omnibuses [line tinted green] Rural Postmen mounted [line tinted blue] Rural Postmen on foot [line tinted yellow] Tricycle Posts [line tinted brown] Boundary of Counties [light dotted line] Boundary of Surveyor's Districts [bold dashed line] Post Towns [name and double circle] Money-Order Sub.-Offices [name and circle] Points at which Mail Carts &c. branch or terminate [name and dash] (The scale line is drawn next.) To avoid overcrowding the map, only a selection of Money Order Sub-Offices is given in the populous Districts The portions of the Map coloured pink mark the separate districts of the Postmasters of Manchester Liverpool and Birmingham
county	The county boundaries are drawn by a light dotted line; the bolder dashed line is the post office surveyor's district boundary. The post office surveyors' districts bear no relationship to counties (just as postcodes today are independent of local authority administration; confusing to the public, but making good sense to the postmen delivering the mail.) Hampshire mostly lies in the south central PO surveyor's district covering all or parts of Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset and Isle of Wight. Eastern parts of Hampshire are in a south eastern PO surveyor's district stretching across all or parts of West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent.
settlements	Settlements relevant to the subject of the map, letter delivery, are shown. The various place markers are described in the table of symbols. post town money order sub office end of a post route
roads	Roads are implied by the routes of the mounted and foot postman's walks in rural areas. The routes are diagrammatic, smoothed-out lines in most examples. Delivery by:- mail coach or mail cart, stage coach or omnibus, mounted rural postman, rural postman on foot, and tricycle.
railways	Railways are drawn by bold lines if they are part of the postal system, otherwise by light double lines, and by light dotted lines if they are in still course of construction. The railways (not their companies) shown in use are:- Andover and Redbridge Railway Basingstoke and Salisbury Railway Berkshire and Hampshire Railway Bishops Waltham Railway Bishopstoke to Gosport branch railway Brockenhurst to Christchurch branch railway Chichester to Portsmouth Railway Eastleigh to Salisbury branch railway Fareham to Cosham branch railway Farnham to Alton branch railway Hurstbourne to Fullerton branch railway London and Southampton Railway Lymington Railway Mid Hants, Alton Lines, Railway Portsmouth Railway Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway Southampton and Dorchester Railway Southampton and Netley Railway Stokes Bay Railway and Pier Swindon, Grafton and Marlborough Railway
	The GWR line from Newbury to Winchester, and the Petersfield Railway from Midhurst, are shown as lines not used. A railway under construction is shown down the west bank of Southampton Water, on a line which never got built quite that way, which looks as if it is aiming for a closest crossing to Cowes, Isle of Wight..

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NOTES from the GENERAL POST OFFICE CIRCULATION MAP, 1890

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