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 between the latitude/longitude and the frame the "13" has reappeared. 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.

Across the bottom is "London. Published by Chapman and Hall, N^o 193 Strand."

Latitude and longitude (noted as being from Greewich) are inscribed around the border, with 2 minute bars and numbers every 10 minutes. The Parliamentary Divisions (three since 1868) are not indicated at all, but the old line of crosses used to denote the Southern/Northern Division boundary (coloured until 1866) is still present.

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 Thorpe le Soken to Walton on the Naze (authorised 1864, opened 1867), from Bishops Stortford via Dunmow to Braintree (1861; 1869), and from Bethnel Green via Walthamstow to Chingford (1864; 1873).

There are no routes shown as proposed (ie no dashed lines).

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