File:Sheppey and Faversham to Herne Bay RMG F0202.tiff

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Dury and Herbert; John Andrews
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English: [Sheppey and Faversham to Herne Bay]Single sheet. engraving. Hand coloured in outline, along boundaries. Scale: 1:31,680. The border is graduated for latitude and longitude from the prime meridian of London (not Greenwich). Sandbanks are marked and soundings are given in fathoms. The Thames is decorated with ships. The chart also shows a great deal of land topographical and ownership detail.

A sheet from: A topographical map of the County of Kent in twenty five sheets on a scale of two inches to a mile. From an actual survey in which are expressed all the roads, lanes churches, towns, villages, noblemen and gentlemens seats, Roman roads, hills, rivers, woods, cottages and every thing remarkable in the country; together with the division of the lathes and their subdivision into hundreds. By Jn Andrews, Andw Dury and William Herbert.

G218:8/22 H Kent
Date 1769
date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Printed area 46 x 52cm, on sheet 64.5 x 72cm
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540964
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Acquisition Number: N80-1.
Acquisition Number: N80-1
id number: G218:8/22H
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Charts and maps

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