240 Maps of Wiltsldre. 



present state of the City of Salisbury and other 

 Towns of Note. By Eman: Bowen, Geogr. to His 

 Majesty. British statute miles 69 to a degree, 15 [--5^ 

 inches]. 



To the Bright Honble Robert Sawyer Herbert, 

 Lord Iiieutenant & Gustos Botulorum for the 

 County of Wilts. This Map is humbly Dedicated 

 by his Lordships most humble Servt. Eman: 

 Bowen. Sold by J. Tinney at the Golden Lion 

 in Fleet Street, London, 1755. 27Jin. x 21in. 



In [a collection of maps of the counties of ENGLAND AND 

 WALES BY E. BOWEN, AVITHOUT TITLE ; IT IS NO DOUBT THE FIRST 

 EDITION OF " THE LARGE ENGLISH ATLAS : OR, A NEW SET OF MAPS 

 OF ALL THE COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES . . . BY EMANUEL 

 BOWEN ... THOMAS KITCHIN, AND OTHERS. LONDON : PRINTED 

 AND SOLD BY JOHN BOWLES, AT THE BLACK HORSE, IN CORNHILL, 

 CARINGTON BOWLES, NEXT THE CHAPTER-HOUSE, IN ST. PAUL'S 

 CHUHCH YARD ; AND ROBERT SAYER, AT THE BUCK, IN FLEET- 

 STREET," 1758.] fol, 



Shows towns, with market towns indicated by means of signs, villages, 

 churches with signs to show whether in charge of a Rector or Vicar, 

 boundaries of the hundreds with their names in large type, rivers and 

 bridges, the main roads with distances between market towns marked 

 in miles, parks enclosed with palisades, and hills. 



Borough and market towns are distinguished by the engraving, and 

 the number of members returned to Parliament is indicated by 

 "^ asterisks. Religious Houses, Charity Schools and Post Stages are shown 

 by signs, Salisbury Plain is marked in the extreme south of the county,, 

 in the Hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, six miles south of Salisbury, 

 and the part of the Plain lying north-west of Stonehenge is named 

 " Black Heath." 



Top left-hand corner, the words " Part of Glocester Shire." Between 

 "Part of " and " Glocester," a note referring to " Selbury Hill '' ; and, 

 between " Glocester " and " Shire," two notes describing " Troubridge " 

 and " Lavington West." Below these, descriptive notes of Marlborough 

 and Ramsbury, followed by " Part of Somerset Shire " with a note in 

 reference to Westbury interpolated between " Part of " and " Somerset '" y 

 and, between " Somerset " and " Shire," a list of the Earls of Wilt- 

 shire, and seats of the Nobility &c., the latter being continued below 

 "Shire"; and followed by the titles of four baronets, and "Explana- 

 tion." 



