A Pocket guide to the English Traveller

Maps from A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller unroll the roads of England and Wales in narrow strips, town by town, as t...

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Maps from A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller unroll the roads of England and Wales in narrow strips, town by town, as the traveller of 1719 met them. Thomas Gardner's guide was published in London that year for Jacob Tonson and John Watts. Roads from London run towards Oxford, Harwich, Brighton and the West Country, and others link northern towns or reach the Welsh coast, with sections on Carlisle, Berwick, Aberystwyth, St David's and Cardiff. Rivers, junctions and settlements mark the way along each strip, showing what the road passed rather than the county around it, long before railways redrew Britain's routes.

Maps from A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller unroll the roads of England and Wales in narrow strips, town by town, as the traveller of 1719 met them. Thomas Gardner's guide was published in London that year for Jacob Tonson and John Watts. Roads from London run towards Oxford, Harwich, Brighton and the West Country, and others link northern towns or reach the Welsh coast, with sections on Carlisle, Berwick, Aberystwyth, St David's and Cardiff. Rivers, junctions and settlements mark the way along each strip, showing what the road passed rather than the county around it, long before railways redrew Britain's routes.

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