Maps of Somerset

Maps of Somerset

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Devon XXXV.3 (includes: Ashbrittle; Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Devon XXXV.3 (includes: Ashbrittle; Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Devon XXXV.3 (includes: Ashbrittle; Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVII.8 (includes: Ashbrittle; Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVII.8 (includes: Ashbrittle; Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVIII.5 (includes: Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus; Stawley) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVIII.5 (includes: Hockworthy; Holcombe Rogus; Stawley) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Devonshire XXXV.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Somerset LXXVIII.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Cullompton

The heavy colour washes used to depict relief make this plan difficult to interpret. These Ordnance Survey drawings show a greater preoccupation with the lie of the land than any previous maps - testimony to the military impetus of the project. Inclines are indicated by interlining ('hachuring'), with the summits left bare. The boundary of Devon and Somerset is shown by a red pecked line. A note in the margin of the paper provides a key to the plan's interpretation.
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Tiverton (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Tiverton (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Minehead - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Cary's Improved Map of England and Wales

Cary, George, & Cary, John London : G. & J. Cary
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North Devon, Sheet 35 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of England & Wales

1 : 126720 Topographic maps Bartholomew, John George John Bartholomew & Co
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An improved map of the county of Somerset

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 51 x 68 cm Bowen; Hinton sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard
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Somersettensis comitatvs

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 36 x 48 cm Valck; Schenk apud G. Valk et P. Schenk
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Somersettensis comitatvs

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 48 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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SOMERSET- | TENSIS | COMITATVS. | Somerset shire.

[Amsterdam : Joan Blaeu]
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Somersettensis Comitatus = Somerset Shire

1 : 240000 Amstelodami : apud Joannem Janssonium
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SOMERSETENSEM Comitat.

This map of Somerset is from the 1583 edition of the Saxton atlas of England and Wales. This atlas was first published as a whole in 1579. It consists of 35 coloured maps depicting the counties of England and Wales. The atlas is of great significance to British cartography as it set a standard of cartographic representation in Britain and the maps remained the basis for English county mapping, with few exceptions, until after 1750. During the reign of Elizabeth I map use became more common, with many government matters referring to increasingly accurate maps with consistent scales and symbols, made possible by advances in surveying techniques. Illustrating the increasing used of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State, who had been determined to have England and Wales mapped in detail from the 1550s, selected the cartographer Christopher Saxton to produce a detailed and consistent survey of the country. The financier of the project was Thomas Seckford Master of Requests at the Court of Elizabeth I, whose arms appear, along with the royal crest, on each map. The decorative scale bar houses Saxton’s name and the name of the engraver Leonardus Terwoort, one of seven English and Flemish engravers employed to produced the copper plates for the atlas. Relief, in the form of uniform rounded representations of hills, is the main topographical feature presented in the maps. Rather than provide a scientific representation of relative relief these give a general impression of the lie of the land. Settlements and notable buildings are also recorded pictorially; a small building with a spire represents a village, while more important towns are indicated by groups of building. The county border are differentiated by different coloured shading. In neighbouring Wiltshire Longleat estate is marked. At the time this map was first engraved Longleat was still being built by Sir John Thynn and was not finished until 1580, the year after the maps publication. This perhaps is reflected in the somewhat modest appearance of the house and gardens? Saxton, Christopher Ryther, Augustine
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Sheets 13-14. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland).

1 : 360000 Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835
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Somersettensis Comitatus. Somerset shire. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 150.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Somersettensis Comitatus. Somerset shire. [Karte], in: Le théâtre du monde, ou, Nouvel atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les païs de la terre, Bd. 4, S. 134.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Willem Janszoon und Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Somersettensis Comitatus. Somerset shire. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 150.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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