Early Road from Oxford to Coventry and Derby, c1757

by Ogilby - Senex

Senex antique map after Ogilby surveyed England roads. Strip Road Maps c1675, updated by Senex in 1757.

From Oxford to Kidlington, Dunstow, Dedington, Adderbury, Banbury, Coventry, Nuneaton, Atherston, Ashby de la Zouch and Derby. (On the reverse is the next listed map, so two finely hand-coloured antique strip maps for the price of one: Oxford to Abington, Farnborough, Great Shelford, Hungerford, Tudworth, Ford, Salisbury Plain, Cranborn, Winborn Minster and Poole.

Original copperplate engraved maps by John Senex after John Ogilby published c1757 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).