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Commencement of road to Edinburgh (by Ware), with roads to Cambridge, Wisbeach, Lynn, Burnham Market, and Wells

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Printed map. "Published 12th. Feby. 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, no. 53 Fleet Street London. A new edition 1815".
"E. Jones sculp." Visual scale [50 mm=15 miles]. Map shows roads, rivers, towns and distances. "Roads measured from Shoreditch Church." Plate number "23". Likely from Laurie and Whittle's New Traveller's Companion..., edition uncertain. Various versions of the Traveller's Companion are described in David Smith's Antique Maps of the British Isles, p. 163. Donated by Dr. Les Shemilt, 2008.

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Commencement of road to Edinburgh (by Ware), with roads to Cambridge, Wisbeach, Lynn, Burnham Market, and Wells
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Printed map. "Published 12th. Feby. 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, no. 53 Fleet Street London. A new edition 1815". "E. Jones sculp." Visual scale [50 mm=15 miles]. Map shows roads, rivers, towns and distances. "Roads measured from Shoreditch Church." Plate number "23". Likely from Laurie and Whittle's New Traveller's Companion..., edition uncertain. Various versions of the Traveller's Companion are described in David Smith's Antique Maps of the British Isles, p. 163. Donated by Dr. Les Shemilt, 2008.
Publisher
Laurie & Whittle
Contributor
Laurie & Whittle, Jones, E. (Engraver)
Date
1815
Type
Format
map, [1:483,000 approximately]
Identifier
macrepo:31285, local: RMC_107661
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Language
eng
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England, Europe--Great Britain--England
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