Beggers Bush Kintbury, Berkshire 1675

1675 Ogilby (v540f.)

John Ogilby, the royal cosmographer, in 1675 produced Britannia an atlas, celebrated in the history of cartography. The pre-turnpike road network was not depicted with any accuracy until Ogilby published his atlas of “principal roads” of England and Wales in 1675. Britannia consisted of strip maps at 1:63360 scale of 85 routes on 100 copper plates which surveyed and mapped over 7500 miles of road.

Source

EPNS Survey of English Place-Names

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