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A topographical-map, of the county of Kent, 18

1 Blatt : 54 x 71 cm A. Dury, W. Herbert
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Hythe (Kent)

Drawing of the area in Kent to the west of Hythe and south of Ashford. The drawing is quite worn, making it hard to read. The Hythe coastline is indicated by a blue line. Romney Marsh is shown as a patchwork of green fields. The layout of an orchard at Westernhanger is represented by tiny drawings of individual trees. Detail such as this reveals the meticulousness of the Ordnance Survey.Near Ruckinge, a dot and pencil line are annotated "Military Canal". The Royal Military Canal was built in 1806, stretching for 28 miles from Hythe to Cliff End. It was built as a third line of defence against Napoleon, in combination with the Royal Navy patrol of the English Channel and the line of 74 Martello Towers along the south coast. The pencil line on this drawing, leading from Ruckinge across Romney Marsh to the coast, does not correspond to the actual position of the finished canal. The project had to wait five years after the drawing was produced before the government granted final approval.
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Charing, Kent(002OSD000000017U00375000)

The dominant feature of this drawing is the use of different shades of green to distinguish fields and woods. The draughtsman has depicted individual trees and recorded the position of clearings in Chilham Park. Such detail is testimony to the meticulousness of the Survey. The Stone Street Causeway, a Roman road, is shown to the left of the plan. Connecting Lympne to Canterbury, it is likely to have been the route taken by Henry II's men on their way to murder Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170.
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Chilham, Kent 17

This drawing comprises several sheets of paper joined together. Although roads and field boundaries are shown, much other detail is missing from the drawing and no indication of relief is indicated. Major settlements are named and individual buildings are delineated in red or black, indicating stone or wood structures. A pencil note in the bottom right corner records the publication date and status of the drawing as a proof.
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A topographical-map, of the county of Kent, 13

1 Blatt : 54 x 71 cm A. Dury, W. Herbert
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Charing, Kent(002OSD000000017U00376000)

This rough sketch was produced in the field. Crosshatching indicates relief and generalised representations of treetops describe woodland.
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TR04 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TR03 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TQ94 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TQ93 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LV - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LXV - OS Six-Inch Map

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Kent LXXIII - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LXXXI - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LIV - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LXIV - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LXXII - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent LXXX - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Staplehurst, Kent

1 : 21120 This field sketch of the Kentish flatlands was made on about 19 pieces of irregularly cut paper, which were then joined and mounted on a thick sheet., Considerable mismatch of detail is noticeable along the joins. Buildings are infilled and blocked in red at settlements,such as,Ulcomb and Sutton Valance. Relief is depicted by rough pencil interlining.
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Chilham, Kent 6

Drawing showing the area between Challock and Chilham in Kent. To plot the landscape of England, individual parts of the countryside were divided into triangular sections., Two black lines visible on this map represent sides of,one such,triangle., The drawing is covered in red lines., Radiating from fixed points, these indicate the positions from which the surveyor took angular measurements to plot the location of topographical features. Pink, George
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Sutton Valence, Kent

This drawing is incomplete and has many corrections. ,It,reveals the process by which,draughtsmen worked, recording topographical features first,and adding relief afterwards. The crossed-out,and corrected names show a revision process comprising,several stages.
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TQ84 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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The plat of Romney Marsh, Describing as well the Common Watercourses, with Their Heads, Armes, Pinocks, Bridges, and Principal Gutt

This is a plan of Romney marsh, north of the Rhee Wall dating from around 1592. also describing the common watercourses with their heads, armes, pinocks, bridges and principall gutt, also the high (can't read) and lanes within the same shewing likewise thee true places of the parish churches, dwelling-hou. It shows the communication routes of high ways and lanes and the location of parish churches. Common watercourses are indicated, along with the location of their heads. Romney marsh is one of the largest areas of coastal marshland in England. Due to its nature as wet land adequate drainage of the area is a consideration, reflected by the attention given to water courses here. This map is a derivative of a drainage map attributed to Thomas Langdon.
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TQ83 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Charing, Kent(002OSD000000017U00377000)

This rough sketch was produced in the field. Crosshatching indicates relief, and generalised representations of treetops describe woodland.
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Challock, Kent

1 : 10560 This pencil and ink drawing is a very rough sketch or 'foul plan' of a rural section of the North Downs in Kent. It was drawn on 17 pieces of irregularly cut paper. The map was made in the field by the draughtsman to augment the angle and distance measurements noted in his field books. The detail recorded here was incorporated into the 'fair' drawing, which survives as OSD 109/110/111, serial 380. Pink, George
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Eastling, Kent 6

Drawing showing the area around Eastling in Kent. This is an 'outline drawing'. It is uncoloured and has no representation of relative relief. Such drawings represented the halfway stage between the original protraction and the finished darwing. Increasingly sophisticated mapmaking techniques made this intermediate stage redundant by the 1830s. Red lines also feature heavily. Radiating from fixed points, these show the angular measurements taken with a theodolite to enable the surveryor to plot the location of topographical features. Black lines indicate the edges of the area intended to be copied up for the finished drawing. Pink, George
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TR05 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TQ95 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex XXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex XXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex XXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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