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SURVEY
OF
THE HIGH ROADS
OF
England and Wales.
PART THE FIRST.
COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF
KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET,
DEVON, AND CORNWALL;
WITH
PART OF BUCKINGHAM AND MIDDLESEX.
PLANNED ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE.
EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW
THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY,
WHETHER SITUATED ON, OR CONTIGUOUS TO, THE ROAD.
The various Branches of Roads and Towns to which they lead.
TOGETHER WITH
THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OF THE SAME FROM THE MAIN ROAD, RIVERS, NAVIGABLE CANALS,RAILWAYS, TURNPIKE GATES, &c. &c.
ACCOMPANIED BY
INDEXES,
TOPOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE.
THE WHOLE
ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF VALUABLE AND ORIGINAL INFORMATION.
ARRANGED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF,
EDWARD MOGG.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD MOGG, No. 51, CHARING CROSS.
1817.
TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE REGENT.
Sir,
Your Royal Highness having graciously condescendedto extend your august patronage and protectionto this work, I cannot present it to the public, withouttestifying how deeply sensible I am of this most graciousmark of your Royal Highness’s approbation.
I am perfectly aware that no merit of the performancecan give it pretensions to so exalted a patronage;yet to whom can this publication with so much proprietybe addressed, as to that illustrious and magnanimousPrince, who, by his wisdom and councils, during themost arduous contest in which any nation was everengaged, preserved us in the quiet enjoyment of thatland, and, under whose auspicious guidance and government,has been raised to the highest p