First state
Imprint:
Publish'd by the Proprietors T. Badeslade & W H Toms Septr.
29th. 1741.
There is no plate number.
Scale: English Miles. (10 = 30mm)
The map names about twenty places in Cambridgeshire and a further twelve outside the county boundary. Peterborough appears twice, once as Peterboro in Lincolnshire.
Roads shown are:
1. Royston via Cambridge and Ely to Downham in Norfolk.
2. A road across the southeast corner of the county from Waldon in Essex via Newmarket to Berton Mills in Suffolk.
The rivers Grant, Cam, Ouse, Old Nene, Peterborough and Welland are named on the map, as is the Shire Drain, the boundary with Lincolnshire.
Second state
The imprint is unchanged.
Plate number 8 added outside the top right-hand corner of the map.
Third state
The imprint is unchanged.
About fifty-five place names have been added. Peterboro in Lincolnshire has been erased.
Roads added are:
1. In the northwest of the county a road from the boundary with Northamptonshire via Thorney to the boundary with Huntingdonshire.
2. Mersh via Duddington, Chattres, Sutton, Ely, Soham and Fordham to join the Newmarket-Berton Mills road near the boundary with Suffolk.
3. Hadenham to Cambridge via Rampton.
4. A branch from the Ely-Cambridge road near Streatham via Hadenham to the 100 Foot Drain near the boundary with Huntingdonshire.
5. A branch from the road just north of Cambridge via Lowlworth to the boundary with Huntingdonshire and on to Huntingdon.
6. Cambridge to the boundary with Huntingdonshire where to Coventry is engraved beside the road.
7. Cambridge to the boundary with Bedfordshire via Comberton, Kingston, Bourne, Longstow and Gamlinghay.
8. Cambridge to Newmarket via Barnwell and Stow Qui.
9. Newmarket to Rech. There is a branch from this road to Fordham via Burnwell.
10. From Huntingdon, crossing the county boundary at Papworth via Caxton to the Hertfordshire boundary at Royston where to London is engraved beside the road.
11. Royston to Lynton.
12. A branch from the Cambridge-Royston road between Cambridge and Trumpington via Baberham to join another road just north of Lynton.
13. Another branch from the Cambridge-Royston road south of Trumpington via Newton and Triplow to the Essex boundary where to London is engraved beside the road.
The areas between the two branches of the Peterborough river and between the Old Bedford river and the 100 Foot Drain have been shaded.
NORTHAMPTON S and dotted line boundaries with Lincolnshire and Huntingdonshire have been added, as has the wording PART OF BED FORD SH. at the bottom left of the map.
In the left-hand information panel the market day for Ely has been changed from Tuesday to Saturday.
Fourth state:
Imprint changed to:
Publish'd by the Proprietor W H Toms Sept. 29. 1742.