The Road from Glocester to Montgomery.

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[Being plate 71 from the second edition of the Britannia, Itinerarium Angliae 1698, folio]. Plate size: 445 x 325 mm. Contemporary hand colour, central cartouche with the Royal Arms, plate no. to bottom right corner. Small worm hole near old centrefold, not affecting image. The atlas was composed of a hundred sheets of roads, with each covering a distance of about 70 miles.  Longer roads, such as London to Lands End, were depicted on a series of sheets. On each map, the road is depicted in a series of parallel strips.  The surveyors noted whether the roads were enclosed by walls or hedges, or open, local landmarks, inns, bridges (with a note on the material of construction), fords, and sometimes even the cultivation being practised in the country on either side of the road.  Hills were drawn to show the direction of their incline, and relative steepness. N° de ref. del artículo PS.083

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