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FA1999.33:- 
Map, uncoloured lithograph, part of a Great Map of Hampshire, sheet 36? area south of Winchester, scale about 5 inches to 1 mile, by Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish, Kingsgate Street, Winchester, Hampshire, about 1823.
The map includes parts of - St Cross, Winchester; Chilcomb; Compton, Compton and Shawford; Otterbourne; Twyford; Owslebury; etc, in Hampshire.
It is felt that this sheet is a trial sheet, perhaps made to raise subscriptions for the whole project; the ambitious scale of the project and its costs would have made it difficult to find support, no other sheets in the series have been seen, as yet; the title includes 'part of' which would not have been used if the sheet were part of a complete series? lithography is unusual for a map of this period.
Pigot's Directory for Hampshire lists 'Kentish, Nathl. L. author of the great Map of Hants. Kingsgate-st' Winchester, 1823-24.
Correspondence between Kentish and Robert Drummond about mapping his estate, refers to the large scale map in preparation, 1823.
map type -- Kentish 1823 -- other image

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