Maps of Devon
Devonshire LXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map
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Devonshire LXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map
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Devonshire LXXII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.2 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Chardstock; Hawkchurch) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.2 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Chardstock; Hawkchurch) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.2 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Chardstock; Hawkchurch) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.1 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Kilmington) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.1 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Kilmington) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.5 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Kilmington) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.5 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town; Kilmington) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.6 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town) - 25 Inch Map
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Devon LXXII.6 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Axminster Town) - 25 Inch Map
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Dorset XXVII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map
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Dorset XXVII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map
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Axminster
The dark brushwork used by the draughtsman to describe relief makes the place names and details of this drawing hard to read. The word 'flag' appears in several place, most clearly at Yarcombe Hill at the top of the drawing. This denotes a trigonometrical station, a location from which the surveyor took angular measurements in order to plot features of the landscape. Two ancient earthworks are marked by concentric shapes and dark shading at Stockland Hill and Membury. A yellow pecked line indicates the boundary between Devon and Dorset. Searle, Richard
Dorset XXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map
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Somerset XCV.NE - OS Six-Inch Map
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Dorset XXVII.16 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Hawkchurch; Wootton Fitzpaine) - 25 Inch Map
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Dorset XXVII.16 (includes: Axminster Hamlets; Hawkchurch; Wootton Fitzpaine) - 25 Inch Map
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Sidmouth (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
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Sidmouth (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
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Dorset Shire, 1
2 Blätter : 109 x 54 cm s.n.
Taunton and Lyme Regis - OS One-Inch Map
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Cary's Improved Map of England and Wales
Cary, George, & Cary, John London : G. & J. Cary
Comitatus Dorcestria, sive Dorsettia ; vulgo anglice Dorset Shire
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Comitatus Dorcestria vulgo anglice Dorset Shire
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Ottermouth Haven [Coasts of Devon and Dorset from Dartmouth to Weymouth with a written description of Ottermouth Haven]
This is a map of the coast of Devon and Cornwall from Dartmouth to Weymouth which forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. This map shows the coastline in a pictorial fashion, with buildings indicated by generic, rather than individualized images of various building types. In the left hand margin is a written description of Ottermouth haven, which also features on the map itself. A dominating feature of the map in the compass rose in the centre which has lines radiating from it, each with a direction written along side it. From the style of the lettering and the depiction of the ships the map can be dated to the around 1540. Lord Burghley has annotated the map, adding a we’y of xviii foot brod’ to a narrow bridge of land and adding Sandfoot castle to the coastline to the right of the Isle Portland. The map may have originally been drawn in connection with the 1539-40 invasion scare caused by the alliance against England of France and Spain. The fortification of the Dorset coast was an essential part of the defensive preparations and in April 1539 Lord Russell surveyed the area, sending a plat’ to Cromwell which suggested a much more ambitious fortification program than was actually carried out. Sandfoot, which Lord Burghley has inserted onto this map, was in commission by 1541-1542. The fact that it does not originally appear on the map suggests that it was not built at the time of the maps execution. This is curious however as Portland Castle, built at the same time as Sandfoot, was included by the original draughtsman. The castles were intended to be able to cross fire over the important anchorage known as Portland Roads. Lord Burghley’s interest in the area can be attributed to a new invasion threat from Spain. This threat was also rooted in religious ideology as the Catholic Philip II of Spain wanted to remove the ardently Protestant Elizabeth I from the English Throne. Unfortunately, the coastal forts in Dorset, as with others in England, had been allowed to fall into disrepair. Finally in 1584 action to repair the Dorset forts was authorised by the Privy Council. William Cecil, Lord Burghley
An accurate map of Dorset Shire divided into hundreds
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Map of Dorsetshire
This map comes from the Abbott's Illustrated Counties series of county guides: Dorsetshire, its history, antiquities, places of interest, etc a complete, concise and exhaustive story of Dorset from the earliest times to the present day' The Guide Printing & Publishing Co.
