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The Continuation Of The Road From Bristol To Chester [Plate 57]

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This final part of the road map from Bristol to Chester starts at Ludlow in Shropshire and includes the towns of Church Stretton and Shrewsbury, with the villages in between, before ending in Chester. John Ogilby (1600-1676) had a variety of colourful careers (not invariably ending in disaster) before he embarked on a career as a surveyor and cartographer. He was a sometimes dancing master, poet, translator, historian, printer, publisher, Royal Cosmographer (1671), Master of the King's Revels in Ireland, founder manager and director of Dublin's first theatre and surveyor to the City of London, as well as a cartographer! Ogilby is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the "Britannia", which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times and was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets in the atlas covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets - for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns and villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles and even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline and their size. All this at a constant scale of one inch to one mile.

region: Shropshire

mapmaker: J.Ogilby

place and date of publication: London 1675

medium and colour: Copperplate, Coloured
size in cms: 45 x 34

ref: 26680

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The Continuation Of The Road From Bristol To Chester [Plate 57]

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