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Dury and Andrews' Map of Hertfordshire: Society and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

Dury and Andrews' Map of Hertfordshire: Society and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

Macnair, Andrew
Rowe, Anne
Williamson, Tom

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Environmental Studies

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ISBN10: 1909686735
ISBN13: 9781909686731
Publisher: Windgather Pr
Published: Jan 31 2016
Pages: 240
Language: English
This book is about the map of an English county - Hertfordshire - which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.
For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail. It was published in a variety of forms, in nine sheets with an additional index map, over a period of 60 years. No other maps of Hertfordshire were produced during the rest of the century, but the Board of Ordnance, later the Ordnance Survey, established in the 1790s, began to survey the Hertfordshire area in 1799, publishing the first maps covering the county between 1805 and 1834. The OS came to dominate map making in Britain but, of all the maps of Hertfordshire, that produced by Dury and Andrews was the first to be surveyed at a sufficiently large scale to really allow those dwelling in the county to visualize their own parish, local topography and even their own house, and its place in the wider landscape.

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