First state
Imprint:
Publish'd by the Proprietors T. Badeslade & W H Toms Septr.
29th. 1741.
Scale: English Miles. (10 = 36mm)
The map names nineteen places in Hertfordshire and four outside the county boundary.
Roads shown are:
1. Barnet to Dunstable in Bedfordshire via St. Albans.
2. Barnet to Baldock via Hatfield and Stevenage.
3. From the boundary with Middlesex via Hodsdon, Ware and Buntingford to Royston.
4. Hodsdon to Stortford.
The Ver, Lea, Maran, Beane, New, and Stort rivers are named.
Second state
The imprint is unchanged.
About sixty place names have been added to the map.
Roads added:
1. Watford to the Buckinghamshire border via Rickmansworth and Sarrat.
2. Watford to Tring via Berk Hampstead.
3. Watford to St. Albans.
4. St. Albans to Hemsted.
5. St. Albans to Lutton in Bedfordshire via Harpenden.
6. St. Albans to Barnet via Elstre.
7. A branch from the Hatfield-Stevenage road between Lemford and Broadwater to Lutton in Bedfordshire via Kempton.
8. A second branch from the Hatfield-Stevenage road between Lemford and Broadwater to Hitching via Misden.
9. Hertford to Baldock via Waterford, Stapleford, Wotton, Walkern and Weston.
10. St. Albans to Waterford via Hatfield.
11. Ware to Buntingford via Tunwell and Sacombe.
12. A branch from the Hodsdon-Buntingford road between Puckeridg and Buntingford to Barley via Barkway.
13. A branch from the Hodsdon-Stortford road from the east side of the Lea river to Stocken Pelham via Widford, Hadham and Hadham on Ash.
14. Stortford to Barley via Brent Pelham.
15. Standon via Hadham on Ash to Stortford and on into Essex where to Newmarket is engraved beside the road.
16. Hadham to Puckeridg via Standon.
Dotted line Buckinghamshire/Middlesex, Middlesex/Essex and Cambridgeshire/Bedfordshire boundaries have been added.
Third state
Imprint changed to:
Publish'd by the Proprietor W H Toms Sept. 29. 1742.