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A version of the book, "The traveller's guide or, a most exact description of the roads of England", in a smaller format and without any maps, was published in 1699 by Abel Swall. [14] Ogilby's Britannia inspired and provided the model for Britannia Depicta or Ogilby improv'd published by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen in 1720. [15]
John Ogilby, Ogelby, or Oglivie (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this.
It featured strip maps. [1] Road from Bristol to Banbury. The atlas was based on the earlier work of John Ogilby who published his Britannia, the first British road atlas drwn to scale, in 1675. Britannia Depicta was printed in 1720 by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen's firm Bowen & Owen. It was one of Bowen's earliest works.
Terry Jones' Great Map Mystery is a four-part television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two Wales in 2008 and presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones. As described on the BBC's website, "Terry Jones sets out on a series of journeys through Wales following the world's first road atlas: John Ogilby's Britannia, published in ...
A brick bridge over Counter's Creek shown in a 1675 map by John Ogilby.. Counter's Creek flowed from Kensal Green, by North Kensington at the confluence of two small headwaters that rose just west of Ladbroke Grove and entered the stream close to Latimer Road just south of St Quintin Avenue. [1]
John Strype referred to it as Angel Alley in his 1720 survey which was based on John Stow's surveys of 1598 and 1603 [5] and William Herbert gave its former name as Angel Court. [6] It is recorded as Angel Street on John Ogilby and William Morgan 's Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676 [ 2 ] which shows the plan of London after its ...
The Road from LONDON to the LANDS END (1675), John Ogilby. The road appeared on John Ogilby's 1675 map of Britain, [8] as "The Road from London to The Land's End in Cornwall", where which he described that "The Post-Office making this one of their Principal Roads", and opined that the section through Surrey and Hampshire was "in general a very ...
Over the years, the direction of the road has taken many detours depending on such factors as changes in tolls or turnpike patronage. For example, in 1750 the toll road from London was altered to go through Melksham; [4] and in 1695 the map maker, John Ogilby, produced a map of the Hungerford area of the Great West Road showing two possible ...