Old maps of Essex

Another issue of A Travelling County Atlas. In the top right corner, outside the frame there is "N^o. 13", and the 13 that used to be between the latitude/longitude and the frame has been removed. Also top right, but within the latitude/longitude bars, is the legend: "Railway Stations shown thus", followed by a black line and a small cross bar with the word "Station". There is no explanation for open versus planned railways.

There is a table of Hundreds, with their numbers printed on the map; in this case the individual Hundreds are not coloured, and all roads are uncoloured. 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 193 Strand."

All railways are now shown as black lines, probably overlaying the double parallel black lines with closely spaced cross bars as used earlier. New black lines are shown from Newport through Saffron Walden to Bartlow (authorised 1863, opened 1867), from Sudbury to Lavenham (1847; 1865), from Sudbury via Clare, Haverill and Linton towards Cambridge (1860; 1865), from Chapel via Halstead to Haverhill (1859; 1863), from north Colchester via Hythe to Brightlingsea (1861; 1866) and Thorpe le Soken (1864; 1866), and from Barking via Stepney to Fenchurch Street (1856; 1858).

The routes from Ilford to Ray House, and Layton Stn to Ray House (authorised 1846, but not built) are still shown as the open ladder, but there is now a solid black line from Stratford to Epping (1859; 1865) and a dashed line from Epping to Ongar (also 1859; 1865). There is also a dashed line from Bishops Stortford via Dunmow to Braintree (1861; 1869).

Displayed scale of 10 miles = 37mm, or 6.9 miles/inch; actual scale = 6.7 miles/inch, or 1:425,000.