A book of the names of all parishes, market towns, villages, hamlets, and smallest places in England and Wales. : Alphabetically set down, as they be in every shire. With the names of the hundreds in which they in which they are, and how many towns there are in every hundred. So that naming any town of place in England and Wales, you may presently in the alphabet find it, and know in what shire and hundred it is, and so know the distance from it to the shire town, and in the large table for shires in England how far to London, or from it to any other town in England. A work very necessary for travellers, quartermasters, gatherers of breefs, strangers, carriers, and messengers with letters, and all others that know the name of the place, but can neither tell where it is, nor how to goe unto it. If you would find out any shire, note that the shires lie alphabetically, beginning with Bark-shire, and so following accordingly.
1662
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Title
A book of the names of all parishes, market towns, villages, hamlets, and smallest places in England and Wales. : Alphabetically set down, as they be in every shire. With the names of the hundreds in which they in which they are, and how many towns there are in every hundred. So that naming any town of place in England and Wales, you may presently in the alphabet find it, and know in what shire and hundred it is, and so know the distance from it to the shire town, and in the large table for shires in England how far to London, or from it to any other town in England. A work very necessary for travellers, quartermasters, gatherers of breefs, strangers, carriers, and messengers with letters, and all others that know the name of the place, but can neither tell where it is, nor how to goe unto it. If you would find out any shire, note that the shires lie alphabetically, beginning with Bark-shire, and so following accordingly.
Uniform title
Direction for the English traviller.
Created/published
London : Printed by M.S. for Tho: Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1662.
Description
99, 101-197, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, tables ; (4to)
Note
Also published as A Direction for the English traviller.
Identified as Wing (2nd ed.) B3718 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1479.
Identified as Wing (2nd ed.) B3718 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1479.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B3717A
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R28495
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R28495
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
B3717A
Folger-specific note
194118. Provenance: inscription and bookplate of Antony T. Anderson