Abstract
The process of mapping during the first years of the seventeenth century imagined a vista that superimposed a spiritual road map on to topographical journeys. The English Civil War changed the conception of roads and geographical environments completely, demanding that a hard-edged understanding of the material realities of travel took precedence over the old allegorical passageways. Yet even this is too simplistic. For if men travelled across Europe after the war in terms of expediency and political manoeuvring, for women the necessity of leaving their home and beginning again in a newcountry was fraught with danger. As the Royalists abandoned