Ogilby's Road from Oakham to Barnsley Bremen Rome Ancienne

Rome Ancienne

Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county maps in the Theatre

This plan of Mantua was published by Merian and his heirs in various works

The pace of change continued unabated and the map was scrupulously revised to show developments such as the embankment of the Thames and the new subterranean railway system

Ogilby's Road from Oakham to Barnsley Bremen Rome AncienneThe Extended Road from Oakham to Richmond commencing at Oakham aforesaid & extending to Barnsley in Yorkshire This map was published as sheet 48 in the 1698 folio edition of Ogilbys pioneering road atlas, the Britannia. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for the project, smaller towns appeared in detail for the first time, and it was largely thanks to Ogilbys influence that the Statute Mile was set at 1760 yards. Ogilby devised the project late