Early Roads in England through Hampshire and Dorsetshire c1757.

by Ogilby - Senex

Antique Road Maps from London to Pool, Dorsetshire - from Alresford through Winchester, Rumsey, Ringwood in Hampshire, Knafton to Pool in Dorsetshire, and then Hampshire again through Christ Church to Lemington, and from Southampton to Winchester.
On the reverse side (for the one payment), the next map (also with fine later colour) is the continuation of the London Road to Wales... from Meriden to Birmingham in Warwickshire, through Dudley in Staffordshire, Bridgnorth and Great Wenlock, to Shrewsbury in Shropshire; and continued to Welshpool in Montgomeryshire, North Wales.

This road map is an original copperplate engraving by John Senex after John Ogilby for The Roads through England Delineated, or Ogilby’s Survey, Revised, Improved & Reduced to a Size Portable for the Pocket by John Senex, F.R.S. Being an Actual Survey of all the Principal Roads of England, and Wales, Distinctly laid down on one hundred & one Copper Plates on which are delineated all the cities, Towns, villages, Hills, Rivers, Brooks, Churches, capital Seats, and every place worthy of Note, throughout each ROAD; WITH The Addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr Ogilby, and Several necessary Corrections made in others; Together with a great number of explanatory references, by which this Edition of the Roads is render'd of more general Use for TRAVELLERS. - Printed for John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill London 1757.

Approximate size of this map is 17 x 22cm (6 x 8.5 inches).