Early ordnance map after the style of John Cary, all roads, major market towns, villages and hamlets are marked. Also shown are all turnpike roads, cross roads Navigable canals and rivers and all parks and gentleman’s houses are coloured in green. Explanatory Legend bottom left and compass rose showing North.
Charles Smith (fl1799-1852) was a publisher, engraver as well as a map and globe seller working at No. 172 (Corner of Surrey Street) Strand, London from 1803 to 1862. From 1864 he was at 63 Charing Cross. A rival of John Cary, producing very similar styled detailed maps, he is best known for his fine New English Atlas published in 1804, which became the model for Cary’s own New English Atlas published five years later in 1809. These fine large folio maps are beautifully engraved and were the first county maps showing longitudes based on the meridian at Greenwich Observatory.
