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Antique Maps - UK Roads & Rail
Brief Article on the History of British Road Maps
Some maps are printed with another map on the reverse. Some descriptions only feature one map.
There is no order or structure to the listing below.
Not all maps are oriented with North facing the top of the page.
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Link to separate page for: Owen and Bowen Road Maps from Britannia Depicta |
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The Road from London
to the 196 Mile Stone in the way to St David's, measured
from Cornhill Universal Mag 1766 size: 300 x 370 mm Ref FAM049 £38.00 (+P&P) Detail 1 Detail 1 click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London to Andover (part of London
to Land's End route) Thomas Gardner 1719 size: 280 x 180 mm Ref ARM001 £70.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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A Map of the Road
from London to Chester measured from the Royal Exchange Gentlemans Magazine 1765 size: 300 x 190 mm, 2 folds, tight margins Ref AAM053 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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A Map of the Roads
from London to Dover, Rye, Hith, Margate, Ramsgate and
Deal Gentlemans Magazine 1765 size: 300 x 190 mm, 2 folds Ref AAM054 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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A Map of the Roads
from London to Dover, Rye, Hith, Margate, Ramsgate and
Deal Gentlemans Magazine 1765 size: 300 x 190 mm, 2 folds Ref QDM003 £45.00 (+P&P) Detail Detail click image for enlargement |
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A Map of the Roads
from London to Portsmouth, Chichester, Southampton,
Pool, & from Southampton to Winchester Gentlemans Magazine 1765 size: 300 x 190 mm, 2 folds, tight right margin Ref AAM055 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Road map - Darlington Bridge to Carlisle
through Warrington, Lancaster, Kendal, Penrith. The Road from Carlisle to Berwick through Jedborough and Kelso J. Gibson for the Gentlemans Magazine 1766 Copper engraving size: 180 x 290 mm, 2 folds, slight discolouration at left margin. Ref LAM018 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Road map through Waltham Abbey, Ware,
Royston, Cambridge, Ely, Kings Lynn RH Laurie c1810 size: 260 x 320 mm, tight side margins Ref HCM010 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Ireland Road map - Dublin - Swords
Skinner /
Taylor 1778 size:
140 x 230 mm Reverse: Ballruddery, Skerries Ref ARM016 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Ireland Road map - Drogheda - Dunleer
Skinner /
Taylor 1778 size:
140 x 230 mm Reverse: Dundalk - Newry Ref ARM017 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Ireland Road map - Dublin to Howth
Skinner /
Taylor 1778 size:
140 x 230 mm Reverse: Dublin / Enniskerry / Rathdrum Ref ARM019 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Ireland Road map - Dublin
Skinner / Taylor
1778 size: 140 x 230 mm Reverse: Dunshaghlin (Road to Ballyshannon) Ref ARM020 £45.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Ireland Road map - Down to Patrick
Skinner /
Taylor 1778 size:
140 x 230 mm Reverse: Newton-Ardes - Grey Abbey Ref ARM018 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Salisbury to Capden
Kitchin 1767
size: 230 x 170 mm Featuring Marleborough, Burford. Reverse: road from Prestain to Carmarthen. Ref ARM024 £32.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Road map - Hereford to Leicester
Kitchin 1767
size: 230 x 170 mm Featuring Hereford, Worcester, Droitwich, Coventry, Leicester Reverse: road from Gloucester to Montgomery. Ref HJS087 £55.00(+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Road map - Durham to Sunderland.
York. Carington Bowles
1785 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Scarborough / Whitby. Ref ARM034 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Melton Mowbray to
Nottingham Carington Bowles 1785
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Mansfield / Rotherham / Barnsley. Ref ARM035 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Yarmouth Carington
Bowles 1785 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Malden / Chelsford / Brentwood. Ref ARM036 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Boston / Spalding / Market
Deeping Carington Bowles 1785
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Nottingham / Loughborough / Hull. Ref ARM038 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London to Rochester
Bowles & Carver 1790
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: continuation Rochester to Canterbury. Ref ARM040 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map -
Tonbridge to Rye passing Tunbridge Wells, Pembury, Lamberhurst, Flimwell, Winchelsea Carrington Bowles 1785 from Paterson's Itinerary Copper engraving size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Canterbury to Deal and Deal to Dover, passing Sandwich. Ref PKM001 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map -
London to Crawley passing Tooting, Mitcham, Sutton, Banstead, Ryegate (Reigate) Carrington Bowles 1785 from Paterson's Itinerary Copper engraving size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: London to Epsom and Cuckfield to Brighton. Ref PKM002 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map -
London to East Grinstead passing Tunbridge Wells, Pembury, Lamberhurst, Flimwell, Winchelsea Carrington Bowles 1785 from Paterson's Itinerary Copper engraving size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Witch Cross to Brighton, Passing Uckfield, Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford. Ref PKM003 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London / Bromley /
Sevenoaks /
Tunbridge
Bowles & Carver 1790
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Maidstone / Cranbrook / Hythe. Ref ARM041 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London / Farningham /
Dover Bowles & Carver 1790
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Wrotham / Maidstone / Ashford. Ref ARM042 £24.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Worcester (from Great
Rolwright to Presteign) Carington Bowles 1782 size: 160 x 145 mm Ref ARM028 £26.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Linlithgow to Stirling
Thomson 1814
size: 105 x 175 mm Ref ARM029 £22.00(+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Kincardine & Angus
(Perth to Aberdeen) Thomson
1814 size: 105 x 175 mm Ref ARM030 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road London to Hythe
Kitchin 1767
size: 230 x 170 mm Featuring Wrotham, Maidstone, Ashford. Reverse: London to Harwich (featuring London, Chelsford, Colchester, Harwich) Ref ARM027 £40.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Edinburgh / Queen's Ferry /
Perth / Dunkeld Skinner / Taylor 1776 size: 220 x 490 mm Reverse: The road from Dalnacardoch to Aviemore Detail Ref AAM073 £65.00 (+P&P) Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3 click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Glasgow to Irvine &
the road from Ayr to Machlin Skinner / Taylor 1776 size: 220 x 490 mm Reverse: Greenock to Irvine & Ary and Dumbarton to Roew Kirk. Detail Ref AAM074 £65.00 (+P&P) Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3 click image for enlargement |
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Post Roads of England & Wales with
distances by the milestones. Universal Magazine 1765 size: 360 x 360 mm Some creases and folds Ref EDM016 £60.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail 1 Detail 2 |
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Road map - St Davids to Holywell. Universal Magazine 1770 size: 360 x 320 mm Some creases and folds. Repair to right margin split. Ref EDM018 £38.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Road map - Chelmsford to St Edmund Bury /
Chelmsford to Malden / Chelsford to Walden / Canterbury to Deal / Gravesend to West Chester / Kelso to Berwick / Deal to Dover Universal Magazine 1770 size: 360 x 320 mm Some creases and folds. Repair to right margin split. Ref EDM021 £38.00 (+P&P) Detail 1 Detail 2 click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London to Dover Featuring: Greenwich, Gravesend, Rochester, Canterbury Bowles Post-Chaise Companion 1782 size: 160 x 140 mm Ref GBM189 £25.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London, Watford, Ayesbury,
Berkhampstead Also Featuring: Arundel, Chichester, Pulborough Common. Bowles Post-Chaise Companion 1782 size: 160 x 140 mm Ref GBM186 £25.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Canterbury to
Dover and Malden, Chelsford,
Rayleigh Bowles Post-Chaise Companion 1782 size: 160 x 140 mm Ref GBM188 £22.00(+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Marlborough to Bath Featuring: Devizes, Melsham, Bowles Post-Chaise Companion 1782 size: 160 x 140 mm Ref GBM185 £22.00 (+P&P) Minor repaired damage at centre-top margin click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Abergaveny, Monmouth,
Chepstow, Chippenham, Haverford West, Llandovery, Brecon Smith's Pocket Atlas 1827 Copper engraving size: 105 x 170 mm Ref ARM100 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Shaftesbury /
Yeovil
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Axminster / Honiton. Ref FKM033 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Salisbury /
Stockbridge
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Dorchester / Blandford. Ref FKM034 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Egham / Reading / Bristol
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Chippenham / Bruton. Ref FKM038 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Plymouth / Exeter /
Crediton
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Exeter / Ashburton / Ivy Bridge. Ref FKM039 £22.00(+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Exeter /
Totnes
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Barnstaple / Biddeford. Ref FKM040 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Carmarthen / St
Clear
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Trescastle / Llandilo. Ref FKM041 £18.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - London / Haverfordwest / St
Davids
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Uxbridge / West Wickham / Beaconsfield. Ref FKM042 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Radnor / Worcester
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Hereford / Kyneton. Ref FKM045 £18.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Cardigan / Gloucester
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Llanymddovry. Ref FKM044 £18.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Edinburgh / Haddington
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Dunbar / Press Inn. Ref FKM051 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Maldon / Brentwood
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Yarmouth / Lowestoft Ref FKM058 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Cambridge / Ely
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Manchester / Stockport. Ref FKM054 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - London / Romford / Brentford /
Norwich
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Chelmsford / Colchester / Kelvedon. Ref FKM056 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Chester / Birmingham
Bowles & Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Dudley / Wolverhampton. Ref FKM049 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - London / Ware / Enfield
/Hertford
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Beverley / Scarborough. Ref FKM052 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Royston / Caxton / Huntingdon
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Stilton / Huntingdon. Ref FKM053 £22.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - London / Wallingford / Wantage
Bowles &
Carver 1803
size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Cirencester / Gloucester. Ref FKM048 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Road map - Chester, Nantwich
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Stafford, Stone. Ref CBM155 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Glastonbury, Wells, Bridgewater
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Minehead, Dunster. Ref CBM193 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - York, Tadcaster,
Ferrybridge
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Pickering, New Malton. Ref CBM241 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Sunderland, York,
Durham
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Scarborough, Whitby. Ref CBM247 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Lancaster, Preston, Garstang
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Kendal, Burton. Ref CBM297 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Newmarket, Saffron
Walden
Bowles & Carver 1803 size: 105 x 180 mm Reverse: Thetford, Mildenhall. Ref CBM317 £20.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Stratford to Chelsford
John Cary 1790 size: 140 x 210 mm Ref ARM002 £30.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Epping, Whips Cross,
Snaresborough John Cary 1790 size: 140 x 210 mm Ref ARM003 £30.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Wrotham, Foot's Cray,
Farningham John Cary 1790 size: 140 x 210 mm Ref ARM004 £30.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Amesbury, Winterborn
Stoke, Wiley Edward Mogg 1814 size: 160 x 230 mm Ref ARM005 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Glastonbury, Walton
Edward Mogg 1814 size: 160 x 230 mm Ref ARM006 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Wrotham, Foot's Cray, Farningham
John Cary 1790 size: 140 x 210 mm Ref ARM007 £30.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Dover, Lydden
Edward Mogg 1814 size: 160 x 230 mm Ref ARM008 £35.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - London to Dartford
(via New Cross, Deptford, Welling & Shooters
Hill) Edward Mogg 1814 size: 160 x 230 mm Ref ARM033 £40.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Road map - Dartford to Chatham
Edward Mogg 1814 size: 160 x 230 mm Ref ARM032 £38.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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A Map of the Mail Road London to
Holyhead c1840
size: 310 x 180 mm Detail 1 Detail 2 Ref FDM007 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement click image for enlargement or on 'Reverse' text for alternate view. |
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Britannia Depicta
2005 CD Edition An electronic copy of all 273 Owen-Bowen county maps and road maps from the 1720 edition. Plus the title page and the four introduction and index pages. The illustrations are approx 1500 x 2700 pixels (approx 300 pixels per inch). All images are hyperlinked to index pages, and may also be view by any JPEG file viewer. An ideal reference work. 2007 - updated with 1759 edition. Now 1720 and 1759 editions on the same CD. Ref BD-CD 2005 £20.00 (+P&P) Link to CD Index Page Link to CD Information Page Important: only Page 001 (in Block 1 of 1720) is available as an example of image quality. |
Railway Maps |
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Railway Junction Diagram. Huddersfield
1911. Published by the
Railway Clearing House in 1914 These maps were produced as a means of establishing railway company divisions at junctions. size : 250 x 160 mm Ref EKM104 £15.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Railway Junction Diagram. Redhill &
Purley 1905. Published by
the Railway Clearing House in 1914 These maps were produced as a means of establishing railway company divisions at junctions. size : 250 x 160 mm Ref EKM105 £15.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail For more information on Railway Junction maps see: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/rjd/rjd-intro.htm |
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Railway Junction Diagram. Epsom &
Leatherhead 1903.
Published by the Railway Clearing House in 1914 These maps were produced as a means of establishing railway company divisions at junctions. size : 250 x 160 mm Ref EKM106 £15.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail |
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Railway Junction Diagram. Worcester
1910. Published by the
Railway Clearing House in 1914 These maps were produced as a means of establishing railway company divisions at junctions. size : 250 x 160 mm Ref EKM109 £15.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Detail For more information on Railway Junction maps see: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/rjd/rjd-intro.htm |
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London Brighton and South Coast
Railway date unknown
size: 300 x 200 mm Some creases and folds. Split on one fold. Map of continental railways on reverse. Ref ARM047 £28.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement Map on Reverse |
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South Eastern Railway Map (Dover & Hastings
branches) Weekly Dispatch c1865 size: 330 x 480 mm Tunbridge Wells to Hastings / Reigate to Tunbridge & Paddock Wood / Ashford - Dover - Deal Ref ARM025 £18.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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London & Brighton Railway. Weekly Dispatch c1859 size: 330 x 480 mm Branches to Reigate, Horsham, Uckfield, Lewis Ref ARM031 £18.00 (+P&P) click image for enlargement |
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Map of the intended Southampton
Railway. Roak & Varty
c1830 A very scarce map produced for the proposal of a new railway from London to Southampton with a branch line from Basingstoke to Bristol. There were originally 8 similar maps, found bound together and the reverse sides used for daily notes in a legal office. The hand written notes are dated 1835, indicating that by this time the maps were of no further use and were being used for scrap. Some maps have a few small stains. The 5 remaining maps to be sold strictly in numerical order. Ref ARM049 to ARM053 £30.00 each (+P&P) or £120 the lot. click image for enlargement Detail |
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