Maps of Hampshire

Maps of Hampshire

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A new improved map of Hampshire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 51 x 67 cm Kitchin; Hinton sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard
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SOUTHAMPTONIAE Comitatus

This is a map of Hampshire by Christopher Saxton, datingfrom 1575. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. This map is actually a proof copy of one which forms part of Christopher Saxton’s 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 use of maps in government matters, Lord Burghley, 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. Lord Burghley added several place names to the map. This map was engraved by Leonardus Terwoort, one of a team of seven English and Flemish engravers employed to produced the copper plates for the atlas. Saxton, Christopher Terwoort, Leonardus Antverpianus
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Bacon's twentieth century map of Hampshire

1 : 125000 titelvariant: Bacon's new map of Hampshire; Annotatie: Omslagtitel: Bacon's new map of Hampshire; Met plaatsnamenregister en afstandentabel London : Bacon
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Hantonia sive Southantonensis Comitatus Vulgo Hant-Shire. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 174.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Hantonia sive Southantonensis Comitatus Vulgo Hant-Shire. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 174.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Hantonia Sive Southantonensis Comitatus Vulgo Hant-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. 154.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Willem Janszoon und Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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HANTONIA | SIVE | SOVTHANTONENSIS | COMITATVS | Vulgo | HANT-SHIRE.

[Amsterdam : Joan Blaeu]
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Hantonia, sive Southantonensis Comitatus, vulgo Hantshire.

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Hantonia sive Sovthantonensis comitatvs vulgo Hant-shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 40 x 48 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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New Forrest & Isle of Wight, Sheet 33 - 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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Hantoniæ comitatus cum Bercheria

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 42 x 53 cm Valck; Schenk apud G. Valk et P. Schenk
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To the right honorable the master, wardens & elder brethren of the Trinity House, this chart of Spithead is ... dedicated

1 : 110000 Heather, W. (William) Heather and Williams
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Carte réduite de l'isle de Wight et costes voisines

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 53 x 82 cm Bellin s.n.
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Vectis Insula Anglice The Isle of Wight. [Karte], in: Novus atlas absolutissimus, Bd. 8, S. 104.

1 Karte aus Atlas Janssonius Offizin
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The Solent - OS One-Inch Map

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

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Isle of Wight

This is a manuscript map of the Isle of Wight. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. It is thought to be by John Rudd, the man to whom Christopher Saxton was an apprentice to in 1570. John Rudd was Vicar of Dewsbury from 1554 to 1570. Rudd had a keen interest in cartography and had been engaged in the 1550s in making a "platt" of England. In 1561 Rudd was granted leave to travel further to map the country and it is likely that Saxton accompanied him, acquiring his skills for surveying. The map shows the Isle of Wight and the coast of Hampshire. By the end of the reign of Henry VIII this area was one of the most heavily defended areas in Northern Europe, the reason for this being the need to defend the vital navel base of Portsmouth and the access that could be gained to this via the Solent. Portsmouth was provided with defensive structures in the 1520’s, making them one of the earliest artillery defences in Britain. The angular lines of these defences are shown here. The distinguishing feature of this map is that the many fortifications in the area are noted and that the draughtsman has recorded the actual architectural plans of the castles. The trefoil shape of Hurst castle is clearly delineated as is the rectangular and triangular bastioned outline of Southsea castle. Calshot castle is marked on the map as Calsharde’. This fort was vital in that it controlled the entrance to Southampton water and linked defensively with the forts of East and West Cowes, located opposite Calshot on the Isle of Wight on either side of the Medina River, which provides access to the centre of the island. In the centre of the Isle, Carisbrooke castle is shown. The draughtsman has recorded the walled and roughly rectangular shape. Interestingly at St Helen’s a plan of a concentric segmented circular structure is shown. This may be a fortification built sometime between 1539 and 1552 to defend the landing, of which little is now known. [Rudd, John] William Cecil, Lord Burghley
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Wight Vectis olim [Karte], in: Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, S. 125.

1 Karte aus Atlas Mercator, Gerhard
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Description of the Isle of Wight

This map of the Isle of Wight dates from around 1600. It is titled on the reverse "Description of the Isle of Wight". A scale bar is included with the motif of dividers, stating ‘Scala Miliaria’, revealing that the map is drawn on a scale of half an inch to one mile. We can not be certain of the identity of the cartographer of this map but it may be one which is thought to have been produced by William White, which was then augmented and published by John Speed in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Both this map and the Speed map exaggerate the width of waterways, the depth of bays and prominence of headlands, in a similar way. Such exaggerations suggest that this map was not the result of survey and was drawn by eye. The beacon network on the island is shown by pictorial representations of individual beacons. The Needles are represented by three squat triangles and labelled ‘The nedles’. The period during which this map was produced saw England at war with Spain. The emphasis on the beacon network suggests that the map is concerned with defence in this climate of unease. Since the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth I to the English throne in 1558 Anglo-Spanish relationship had deteriorated. The continued English raids on Spanish colonial interests and England’s support of the Protestant rebellion in the Spanish ruled Netherlands had induced the Catholic Philip II to plan an invasion of England. Although the Spanish were dramatically defeated by the English in 1588, England remained at war with Spain for many years and further attempts to invade were made by Philip of Spain with the dispersal of the ‘second Armada’ in October 1596 and the assembly of the ‘third Armada’ in the following spring. White, William
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Map of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, 5

1 Blatt : 52 x 68 cm s.n.
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Map of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, 4

1 Blatt : 53 x 69 cm s.n.
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Vectis Insula. Anglice The Isle Of Wight. [Karte], in: Le théâtre du monde, ou, Nouvel atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les païs de la terre, Bd. 4, S. 161.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Willem Janszoon und Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Alresford 19

1 : 31680 Relief is indicated on this plan by shading and interlining ('hachuring'). The concern with depicting relief accurately reflects the military emphasis of these drawings: knowledge of the lie of the land could greatly help the efficient movement of regiments. The right-hand side of the drawing is unfinished, featuring main roads only.
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Vectis insvla. anglice the isle of Wight

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 49 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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Vectis Insula. Anglice The Isle Of Wight. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 183.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Vectis Insula. Anglice The Isle Of Wight. [Karte], in: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus, Bd. 4, S. 183.

1 Karte aus Atlas Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
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Essai d'une isle de Wight

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 30 x 47 cm Le Rouge; Taylor chez le Rouge rue des g.ds Augustins
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Map of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, 3

1 Blatt : 53 x 68 cm s.n.
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Isle of Wight / Geological Survey of England and Wales

1 : 63360 Annotatie: New Series, sheets 330, 331, 344, 345 Geological Survey of England and Wales Southampton : Ordnance Survey of England
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