Old maps of Essex

Still a very plain pink cover with no picture, Price 3D Net (on Cloth 1/- Net). Inside the front cover is an advert for Geographia's Road Maps - 4 for England + 1 for Scotland + 1 for Ireland, all at 6d each mounted on cloth (!); the back cover is blank.

Displayed scale of 5 miles = 45mm, or 2.8 miles,inch; actual scale 2.9 miles/inch, ie 1:185,000.

"Arterial and principal" roads are in red (still unnumbered); the map includes the Southend Arterial as a properly connected road (opened 1925), plus also the Rainham bypass (1924) and even the Stanford-le-Hope bypass (c.1932); the Thaxted branch line is also present (opened 1913).

The map is published by Geographia Ltd, 55 Fleet Street (on both the map and the cover), and has the code M.UB = March 1924 (so the Stanford-le-Hope bypass is a bit early!).