Richard Nicholson of Chester
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JOHN OGILBY'S 100 ROAD MAPS
The First Road Maps of England and Wales published in 1675 and 1698
Each engraved map covers a distance of about 60 or 70 miles. The routes surveyed were the Post Roads which coaches would use when leaving London. Although there were varyingy lenghts of a mile in different parts of the British Isles at this time Ogilby chose to adopt the statute mile of 1,760 yards. The maps are on a scale of one inch to the mile so the maps would have been useful for a coach company to calculate the charge for a particular journey. Or how long a journey might take on horseback. But the "Britannia" would have been too large to carry with you. The traveller had to wait about 45 years for a pocket sized atlas to appear. Each map covers a distance if about 60 to 70 miles. In the event of a route being longer it continued on a second or third map. The road from London to Holyhead covers 4 seperate maps.
More detail is shown than might be imagined on your first perusal of these road maps. The road appears as a double line if they are hedges each side and a pricked line if is unhedged. Turnings off the main road are shown and in many cases the name of where these roads will take you is named and in sometimes the distance there. Hills are portrayed in a helpful manner in that the top and bottom is shown so you know if the road is climbing or decending. The pictorial images of towns, villages are useful to the traveller as well as churches, mills, beacons, houses and woods. The chance of your present old house being shown is, I am sorry, very remote.
The decorative carouches displaying the title to each route are little gems of their own. Some feature figures in in contemporary costume. Others sporting and rural scenes. Four of the one hundred plates feature a cartouche showing the waywiser used to measure distances. Each revolution of the wheel is registered on the dial.
1 London, Acton, Uxbridge, Beaconsfield, High Wycombe, Tetsworth, Oxford, Islip.
2 Islip. Morton in Marsh, Broadway, Pershore, Bramyard, Worcester.
3 Bramyard, Leominster, Presteign, Aberystwyth
4 London, Ewell, Dorking, Billingshurst, Amberley, Arundel, Chichester.
5 London, Waltham, Hoddesdon, Ware, Royston, Huntingdon, Stilton.
6 Stilton, Stamford, Grantham, Newark, Tuxford.
7 Tuxford, Doncaster, Wentbridge, Tadcaster, York.
8 York, Boroughbridge, Northallerton, Darlington, Durham, Chester-le-Street.
9 Chester-le-Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Morpeth, Alnwick, Belford, Berwick
10 London, Reading, Woolhampton, Newbury, Hungerford, Marlborough.
11 Marlborough, Calne, Chippenham, Bristol. Bristol, Axbridge, Huntspil
12 London, Acton, Uxbridge, Amersham, Aylesbury, Buckingham, Banbury.
13 Banbury, Stratford, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth. Banbury, Camden.
14 London, Brentford, Hounslow, Colbrook, Slough, Maidenhead, Abingdon.
15 Abingdon, Faringdon, Fairford, Barnsley, Gloucester, Monmouth.
16 Monmouth, Newport, Cardiff, Cowbridge, Aberavon, Burton.
17 Burton, Kidwelly, Haverfordwest, St. Davids.
18 London, Southwark, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover.
19 London, Romford, Brentford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harwich.
20 London, Eltham, Farmingham, Maidstone, Ashford, Hythe.
21 London, High Barnet, St. Albans, Dunstable, Stony Stratford, Towcester.
22 Towcester, Daventry, Coventry, Lichfield.
23 Lichfield, Rugeley, Stone, Stableford, Nantwich, Tarporley, Chester.
24 Chester, Denbigh, Conway, Beaumaris, Holyhead
25 London, Hounslow, Staines, Basingstoke, Andover
26 Andover, Salisbury, Shaftsbury, Sherborne, Crewkerne.
27 Crewkerne, Honiton, Exeter, Ashburton, Plymouth.
28 Plymouth, Fowey, Tregony, Penzance, Land's End.
29 London, Croydon, East Grinstead, Lewes, Newhaven, Brighton, Shoreham
30 London, Wandsworth, Cobham, Godalming, Petersfield, Portsmouth
31 London, Bromley, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Rye.
32 Andover, Warminster, Bridgwater.
33 Bridgwater, Dulverton, Barnstaple, Torrington, Hatherleigh
34 Hatherleigh, Camelford, Padstow, St. Columb, Truro
35 Chippenham, Bath, Wells, Marlborough, Devizes, Trowbridge, Wells.
36 Stilton, Peterborough, Spalding, Boston. Sleaford, Lincoln
37 Darleston, Brewerton, Warrington, Wigan, Preston, Garstang.
38 Garstang, Lancaster, Bolton, Kendal, Penrith, Carlisle.
39 Guildford, Midhurst, Chichester/ Midhurst, Petersfield, Winchester.
40 Stony Stratford, Northampton, Mkt. Harbrough, Leicester, Loughborough, Derby
41 Temsford, Stilton, Peterborough, Market Deeping, Sleaford, Lincoln
42 Lincoln, Barton, Hull, Beverley, Flamborough.
43 Puckeridge, Cambridge, Ely, Downham, King's Lynn.
44 Four shire stone, Chipping Campden, Worcester, Ludlow, Montgomery.
45 High Barnet, Hatfield, Baldock, Biggleswade, St. Neots, Oakham
46 Puckeridge, Newmarket, Thetford, Attleborough, Windham, Norwich.
47 St. Albans, Luton, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Oakham
48 Oakham, Melton Mowbray, Nottingham, Mansfield, Rotherham, Barnsley
49 Barnsley, Halifax, Skipton, Middleham, Richmond.
50 Meriden, Birmingham, Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury, Welshpool.
51 Bagshot, Farnham, Alton, Alresford, Southampton, Romsey, Salisbury.
52 Newmarket, Swaffham, Wells, Newmarket, Bury St. Edmunds.
53 Basingstoke, Stockbridge, Cranborne, Blandford, Dorchester, Weymouth.
54 Colchester, Ipswich, Saxmundham, Beccles, Yarmouth.
55 Bristol, Chipping Sodbury, Tetbury, Cirencester, Burford, Banbury.
56 Bristol, Chepstow, Monmouth, Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow.
57 Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Whitchurch, Chester.
58 Bristol, Wells, Glastonbury, Taunton, Exeter.
Bristol, River Avon, Bedminster, Bisport (Bishport), Dundrey (Dundry) Winford, Bishops Chue (Chew Magna), Woodford Mill, West Hartry (West Harptree), The Leadmines, Wells, Cockley Bridg (Coxley Bridge), Cranley Bridg, Polsham, Cranwell Moor (Crannel Moor), Sedg Moor (Queen's Sedge Moor), Hartley Bridge, The Tor, St Johns, Glastonbury, St Benedicts, Bumbaley Bridg, Northover, Pumpalls Bridg (Pomparles Bridge), Walton, Streat (Street), Sharpham Park House, Brook Walton, Greinton, Middlesey (Middlezoy), Andre (Othery), St Michels Burro (Burrow Mump / Burrowbridge), River Parret, The Place where Auberney's Abby Stood (Athelney), Lying / Lyng, Ye Lord Hawleys house. Durston, Monketon (Monkton Heathfield), Barpool (Bathpool), Almes Houses, Taunton, Rumwell, Buckland, Chesson (Chelston), Wellington, Whitball (White Ball), Burloscomb (Burlescombe) Welland (Willand), Five Bridges, Columpton (Cullompton), Bradinch (Bradninch), Kelleton (Killerton), Brodeclist (Broadclyst), Exeter
59 Bristol, Gloucester, Tewksbury, Worcester.
60 Bristol, Wells, Glastonbury, Somerton, Mattock, Crewkerne, South Perrott, Frampton, Weymouth
61 Cambridge, St. Neots, Northampton, Rugby, Coventry.
62 Carlisle, Jedburgh, Kelso, Berwick
63 Chester, Wrexham Newtown, Llanbader.
64 Llanbadardfynydd, Brecon, Cardiff.
65 Dartmouth, Exeter, Tiverton, Minehead.
66 St. Davids, Fishguard, Cardigan, Talybont
67 Talybont, Bala, Ruthin, Holywell.
68 Exeter, Chumleigh, Ilfracombe, Bideford, Torrington.
69 Exeter, Tavistock, Liskeard, Truro
70 Gloucester, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Warwick, Coventry.
71 Gloucester, Ross-on-Wye, Hereford, Knighton, Montgomery
72 Hereford, Worcester, Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Coventry, Leicester.
73 Huntingdon, Ely, Bury St. Edmunds, Ipswich.
74 Ipswich, Thwaite, Norwich, Cromer.
75 King's Lynn, Thetford, Stowmarket, Harwich.
76 King's Lynn, Gayton, Billingford, Norwich, Yarmouth.
77 Monmouth, Abergavenny, Brecon, Llanbadarnfynydd.
78 Nottingham, Lincoln, Market Rasen, Grimsby.
79 Oxford, Farringdon, Malmesbury, Bristol.
80 Oxford, Buckingham, Bedford, Cambridge.
81 Oxford, Newbury, Basingstoke, Petersfield, Chichester
82 Oxford, Banbury, Coventry, Ashby-de-la-Zouche.
83 Oxford, Hungerford, Salisbury, Cranborne, Poole.
84 Presteigne, Builth Wells, Llandovery, Carmarthen.
85 Salisbury, Marlborough, Lechlade, Chipping Campden.
86 Tynemouth, Newcastle, Hexham, Haltwhistle, Carlisle.
87 Welshpool, Dolgellau, Caernarvon
88 York, Ripley, Skipton, Settle, Lancaster.
89 York, Leeds, Rochdale, Manchester, Warrington.
90 Warrington, Chester. Manchester, Stockport, Derby
91 Carmarthen, Cardigan, Llanbadardfynydd, Aberystwyth.
92 Chelmsford, Sudbury, Bury St. Edmunds 93 Chelmsford, Maldon/Rayleigh/Ingatestone, Billericay. Gravesend, Dover.
94 Exeter, Colyford, Lyme Regis, Bridport, Dorchester. Plymouth, Dartmouth.
95 Ferrybridge, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Barnard Castle. Ferrybridge, Wakefield.
96 Kendal, Ambleside, Cockermouth, Egremont. Cockermouth, Carlisle.
97 Alresford, Winchester, Poole, Christchurch. Southampton, Winchester. 98 Shrewsbury, Wrexham, Holywell, Chester, Flint. Holywell.
99 Whitby, Guisborough, Stockton, Durham, Sunderland, Tynemouth.
100 York, Pickering, Whitby, New Malton, Sherburn, Scarborough.
RICHARD NICHOLSON
of CHESTER
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I have been buying and selling antique maps since the early 1960's during which time I had a gallery in Watergate Street, Chester for 30 years. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors.
