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  A Map of WORCESTER SHIRE North West from London.
First State Third State
Worcestershire first state Worcestershire third state
Click on either of the maps above to go to a larger image
First state

Imprint:
Publish'd by the Proprietors T. Badeslade & W H Toms Septr. 29th. 1741.

Scale: English Miles (10 = 27mm)

The map names eleven places in Worcestershire and nine outside the county boundary.

Roads shown are:
1. Worcester to Evesham. This road has a branch which leaves it just outside Worcester to go via Pershore to the boundary with Gloucestershire.
2. Worcester to the boundary with Shropshire to the north of Tenbury. This road has a branch which leaves it just outside Worcester to go to Bramyard in Herefordshire.
3. From the boundary with Staffordshire through Kiderminster and Bromsgrove and on to Stratford in Warwickshire.
4. A road across the north-east corner of the county close to Norton Wood.

The Bow, Severn and Avon rivers are named.

Second state

The imprint is unchanged.

About twenty-five place names have been added to the map.

Two roads have been added:
1. Bromsgrove to Withorn Chap via Alchurch.
2. Worcester via Braunsford to Awlstrick and on to the boundary of Herefordshire.

Two more (in addition to the two already labelled) outlying parts of Worcestershire in Gloucestershire have been named.

Dotted lines have been added to mark the Shropshire/Staffordshire, Staffordshire/Warwickshire and Gloucestershire/Herefordshire boundaries.

Third state

Imprint changed to:
Publish'd by the Proprietor W H Toms Sept. 29. 1742.

Seven more place names, Charlton, Kemsey, Severnstoke, Stuckley, Riple, Staunton and Tewkesbury have been added.

A road from Droitwich via Worcester, Kemsey and Riple to Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire has been added.


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