Old maps of Essex

Another issue of A Travelling County Atlas. See Hall's Map Publisher page. There is no plate number.

There is a table of Hundreds, with their numbers printed on the map, but the individual Hundreds are not coloured; major roads are coloured orange. The title appears in a rectangular cartouche, with underneath it Engraved by Sid^y Hall.

Latitude and longitude (noted as being from Greewich) are inscribed around the border, with 2 minute bars and numbers every 10 minutes. The Northern and Southern Divisions (unnamed) are edge-coloured.

Across the bottom is "London. Published by Chapman and Hall, N^o 186 Strand."

All railways are now shown as blue lines, probably overlaying the double parallel black lines with closely spaced cross bars as used earlier (the blue is too dark to tell if all have the black lines). Blue lines are thus shown from London through Stratford, Chelmsford, Colchester and into Suffolk (labelled Eastern Counties Railroad), and from Stratford through Bishops Stortford past Saffron Walden and into Cambridgeshire (labelled Cambridge Rail Rd); these opened in 1846 and 1845 respectively. There are also blue lines for routes from Colchester to Harwich (very inaccurately; authorised 1847, opened 1854) and Stratford to North Woolwich (authorised 1844/45, opened 1846/47).

Displayed scale of 10 miles = 37mm, or 6.9 miles/inch; actual scale = 6.6 miles/inch, or 1:420,000.