Geographia Road Map of Essex, Sheet 100, 1922

476mm h x 721mm w (Cover: 175mm h x 109mm w)

Geographia Road Map of Essex, Sheet 100, 1922

Road Map of Essex, Sheet 100

Paper on cloth; pink card covers stuck to front and back of cloth; Price Net 2/- on Cloth. Advert on the back cover for the 2 inch series of maps.

Handwritten on the cover looks like a purchase date: 24/5/27.

Displayed scale of 10 miles = 89mm, or 2.9 miles,inch; actual scale 3.0 miles/inch, ie 1:190,000.

Arterial and principal roads are in red; the sea is green and the land is white; there is a broad pink county edge-border. The Southend Arterial (opened 1925) and the East Ham & Barking bypass (1928) are present as projected roads, but not the Stanford-le-Hope bypass (c.1932).

The map is published by Geographia Ltd, 55 Fleet Street on the cover and on the map; no code.

© Peter Walker 2014