William Roy - Partial Bibliography

Partial Bibliography

Roy was an exceptionally neat and capable draughtsman, and often made maps of the survey work conducted by others, as well as maps of his own survey work.

In the British Museum

• The Duke of Cumberland's Map (1747)
• A General Description of the South Part of Ireland, or Observations during a Short Tour in Ireland (1766)

• Roman Post at Ardoch
• Culloden House
• Roman Camp, Dalginross, Genearn
• Esk River
• Kent, New Romney to North Foreland
• Louisbourg
• Milford Haven
• Roman Temple at Netherby, Cumberland
• Stratgeth Roman Post, near Innerpeffrey, Strathearn
• Coast of Sussex
• Southeast part of England
• Country between Guildford and Canterbury
• Hindhead to Cocking
• Lewes Road from Croydon to Chailey
• Country from Dorchester to Salisbury
• Country from Gloucester to Pembroke
• Marden Castle, near Dorchester

Publications

• Experiments and Observations made in Britain in order to obtain a Rule for measuring Heights with the Barometer (1778)
• A paper on the baseline used in determining the relative positions of the observatories in Paris and Greenwich, in Transactions of the Royal Society (1785)
• An Account of the Mode professed to be followed in determining the Relative Situations of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris (1787)
• An Account of the Trigonometrical Operations by which the Distance between the Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris has been determined (1790, for the Royal Society)
• Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain, and particularly their Ancient System of Castramentation illustrated from Vestiges of the Camps of Agricola existing there (1790, published posthumously in 1793)