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The survey of Wiltshire is one of Greenwood’s earliest large scale county productions issued before his brother John joined in partnership. Greenwood was now in partnership with the publisher George Pringle. The early 1800s was a time of rapid change in the landscape with the burgeoning industrial revolution. Their surveys utilised the latest system of triangulation adopted by Colonel Mudge and his surveyors for the Ordnance Survey. Indeed, they were in open competition with them. The Greenwood maps were coloured as opposed to the more functional black and white Ordnance Surveys of the period.
It is produced at the scale of one inch to a mile. The map differentiates between woods and plantations, heaths and commons, different types of waterway, roads and of course canals. A large north west view of Salisbury Cathedral occupies the lower left of the map. This is an example of the first edition, a second was issued c.1826 which bears his brothers’ imprint. Rodger (1972) 498; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
Map of the County of Wilts, from Actual Survey Made in the Years 1819 & 1820 by C. Greenwood
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