Ogilby road map updated by Senex: Roads through Yorkshire c1757.

by Ogilby - Senex

18th Century Yorkshire Road Map to Richmond from Almondbury, Huthersfield, Hallifax, Skipton, Rylston, Lynton and Midlam. The next listed map (included in this price) is on the reverse of this map. It is the road from Okeham in Rutlandshire, through Milton Mowbray in Leicestershire, Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, Plesly in Derbyshire, Rotheram, Barnsley and beyond in Yorkshire.

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex c1757 (updating and reducing the size of the maps by John Ogilby c1675), 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 whicvh 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). These maps have fine later hand-colour which makes them easier to follow and certainly more decorative.