Catalogue description The mail road through South Wales

Plan roads from the Eastern boundary of Monmouthshire to Northleach [Glos.] Plan (2 copies; Book of reference missing): Henry Welch, surveyor, under the direction of Thomas Telford, civil engineer.

From the River Wye at Granerew, Whitchurch (with two alternative lines shown), Marstow, Ross [-on-Wye], Weston under Penyard [Herefords.], Lea [now Herefords.], Longhope, Huntley, Churcham (new line to the 5th mile stone from Gloucester on the Gloucester - Monmouth road [in Churcham], (using in part the present line of the road), the present 'Mail Road' from there through Gloucester to [near Longford Lane, Gloucester], then on new line to the High Street, Cheltenham through Churchdown and Cheltenham. Then following the 'present Mail Road' to the foot of Dowdeswell Hill [in Dowdeswell], then a new line to Northleach (Dowdeswell, Andoversford [in Dowdeswell], Shipton Oliffe, Hampnett and Northleach) to near the road from Bristol to Stow [-on-the-Wold] with alternative lines of the road from Old Forge [?in Whitchurch, Herefords.] to join the line of the road in Ross [-on-Wye, Herefords.] through Goodrich [Herefords.] with branch from near Goodrich [Herefords.] to the line of the road in Lea [now Herefords.] through [Weston-under-Penyard, Herefords.] with short branch to the 'proposed new road' from Lea (now Herefords.] to Churcham via Blaisdon [Glos.], a short alternative line in Highnam [in Churcham] with short branches to the 'Present Road' near the Frog Mill Inn and further East [in Shipton Oliffe].

Existing roads, road junctions, woods (some named), houses (some named), some street names, schools (named), field boundaries, quarries (named), rivers, streams and weirs (some named), toll gates, toll houses, inns (named), chapels, churches (shown by a cross; named in Gloucester), St. Margaret's Poor House, Gloucester, post offices, parish boundaries, hills shown by hachure, wells and spas in Cheltenham, Albion Brewery, Cheltenham Railway Office and Thompson's Spa Museum, Cheltenham.

Scale: 1" to 1 mile. Size: 39" x 9".

[See Q/RUm 98/1 ]