Senex's
Hampshire
1757


page 54





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Road from London to Southampton, The -- strip map (pl.54)

Strip map, road map, hand coloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1 inch, The Road from London to Southampton, segment from Bagshot, Surrey to Southampton, Hampshire and from there to Salisbury, Wiltshire, and on the other side The Road from Exeter to Truro in Cornwall, from a road book by John Senex, printed for John Bowles and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill, London, 1757.
From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
Pl.54 Bagshot, and Farnham, Surrey; Alton, New Alresford, Twyford, and Southampton, Hampshire then Romsey, Hampshire; Whiteparish, and Salisbury, Wiltshire.
compare Ogilby plate 51
(Pl.55 Exeter, and Tavistock, Devon; Liskeard, Lostwithiel, St Austel, and Truro, Cornwall.)
Note; the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided.
inscription:-    printed -- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON / continued to SALISBURY. / Commencing at Bagshot in the Road to the Lands-End Pl.25. ...
and -- title and table of distances
inscription:-    printed -- title cartouche
The Road from EXETER to TRURO in CORNWALL / being a continuation of the Road from LONDON through / Exeter Plate 27 to Truro. ...
and -- title and table of distances
wxh, plate:-    212x156mm
scale:-    1 to 150000 ? (approx)
item:-   
HMCMS:FA1997.98
Senex's preface:-
... First perform'd and publish'd by John Ogilby, Esqr;
And now improved, very much corrected, and made portable
by John Senex. ...
Senex's two volumes were much smaller, would fit the
traveller's pocket in a way that Ogilby's never could.

Senex's Hampshire 1719-57, contents
General index
Old Hampshire Mapped