All Maps

By 1822, London was expanding faster than any city in Europe, swallowing villages and market gardens on every side of the old City and Westminster. It was this restless growth...

John Cary earned a reputation as the finest engraver of county maps working in Georgian London, and his 1807 map of Norfolk shows exactly why. It was engraved for Cary's...

By 1881, when A.K. Johnston published this railway map of England and Wales, the country's rail network had reached its Victorian peak, a dense mesh of competing companies criss-crossing every...

John Speed included this map of Lancashire in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611 and widely regarded as the first county atlas of England and...

John Rapkin engraved this map of Manchester and its environs in 1851, a decade after Manchester had cemented its reputation as the world's first industrial city and the undisputed capital...

Pictorial maps were having a moment in the 1930s, and this 1935 map of Scotland is a fine example of the genre: part geography, part storybook, packed with hand-drawn illustrations...

County Sligo appears here as Samuel Lewis mapped it in 1844, one sheet from his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, a work that aimed to record every parish, barony, and market...

John Bartholomew and Son published this half-inch map of Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde in 1901, part of the layered-relief series that made the Edinburgh firm the standard mapmaker...

William Faden drew this map of Great Britain in 1801, near the peak of a career that saw him appointed Geographer to King George III and established as one of...

John Tallis and John Rapkin produced this map of Aberdeen in 1851 for Tallis's Illustrated Atlas series, a Victorian publishing venture known for wrapping detailed city plans in a border...

Few maps carry as much historical weight as this one: Sir William Petty's map of Ireland, published in 1685 and built from survey work he had completed decades earlier as...

Samuel Lewis published this map of County Meath in 1844 as part of his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, a project that set out to catalogue every parish, barony, and market...

This map of County Down was originally published in 1685 by Sir William Petty, based on his Down Survey of Ireland, the first ever detailed land survey carried out on...

This finely detailed map of Glasgow was published in 1851 by the Victorian map publishers Tallis and Rapkin, at a time when the city was rapidly expanding into one of...

This historical map of Somerset was compiled by Samuel Lewis in 1844, part of the wider tradition of detailed topographical surveys Lewis became known for through his influential "Topographical Dictionary"...

This detailed map of west London was published in 1862 by Edward Stanford, whose library map of the capital was hailed by the Royal Geographical Society as "the most perfect...

This exceptionally rare map of Lancashire was created by Joan Blaeu, working from his renowned mapmaking workshop in Amsterdam, and was originally published in his monumental "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive...

This charming pictorial chart of Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire was produced for British Railways' Eastern Region in the years after the Second World War, part of a much-loved series of...

This richly detailed map of Lincolnshire was created by John Speed, the celebrated Elizabethan and Jacobean cartographer, and engraved by the Dutch master engraver Jodocus Hondius. It was first published...

This detailed map of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight was originally published in 1794 by John Cary, one of the most respected commercial cartographers and engravers working in Georgian...

This striking chart of the North Sea and North Atlantic was engraved by the great Flemish-Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius and included in his 1575 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,...

This reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Dorset, or Dorsetshire as it was then known, taken from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the...

This reproduction reproduces an exceedingly rare 1665 map of the Isle of Skye, created by the master Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu from his workshop in Amsterdam and originally published as...

This reproduction reproduces a striking 1752 sea navigation chart of the British Isles, created by the English chart-makers Page & Mount. Unlike a conventional land map, this is a working...

This reproduction reproduces a beautifully hand-coloured 1654 map of Scotland, titled in Latin Scotia Regnum, or 'The Kingdom of Scotland', created by the master Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in his...

This reproduction is taken from Samuel Lewis's 1844 map of County Louth, part of his celebrated Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, a vast Victorian-era survey that documented the towns, parishes, and...

This reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Anglesey, one of the county maps from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first comprehensive county-by-county...

This reproduction is drawn from the 1844 map of Devonshire compiled by Samuel Lewis for his celebrated Topographical Dictionary of England, a monumental Victorian-era survey that catalogued the towns, parishes,...

This charming reproduction reproduces a richly illustrated pictorial map of the British Isles first published in 1939 by the American artist Ernest Dudley Chase. Chase trained as a graphic artist...

This is a beautifully restored reproduction of an exceedingly rare seventeenth-century map of Ireland, titled in Latin Hibernia Regnum, or 'The Kingdom of Ireland'. It was engraved and hand-coloured by...

This map of County Galway was published in 1844 by the topographer and publisher Samuel Lewis, whose county-by-county surveys of Ireland remain a valuable record of the country as it...

This striking map, drawn by Leslie Macdonald 'Max' Gill in 1915, was commissioned by Frank Pick of the London Underground Electric Railway Company specifically to lure a wartime public back...

This map of County Mayo was published in 1844 by Samuel Lewis, whose topographical surveys of Ireland remain an important record of the country in the years just before the...

Stanford's Map of the English Lake District was produced in 1899 by the cartographer and publisher Edward Stanford, at a time when this corner of Cumbria was becoming increasingly popular...

This is the 1928 edition of Macdonald 'Max' Gill's famous Wonderground Map of London, originally created in 1914 and commissioned by Frank Pick of the Underground Electric Railways Company. At...

This is an unusual and historically significant map of Northern Ireland, produced by the Ordnance Survey in 1923, just a year after the creation of the Irish Free State in...

This detailed map of Cork was engraved by John Rapkin and published by J. Tallis & Co in 1851, as part of Tallis's Illustrated Atlas of the World, produced to...

This richly illustrated historical map of England and Wales was created by the cartographer L.G. Bullock in 1958, and belongs to a tradition of pictorial maps that turn geography into...

This atmospheric pictorial map of Hampshire was created by the artist and cartographer Ernest Clegg in 1947, in the years immediately following the Second World War, when decorative county maps...

This detailed political and physical map of County Leitrim was produced in 1685 by Sir William Petty, based on his Down Survey of Ireland, the first detailed land survey carried...

This delightfully hand-coloured and extremely rare map of Edinburgh and the Lothians was originally published in 1690 by Valk and Schenk, a master mapmaking duo working out of Amsterdam during...

This exceedingly rare, full-colour map of Wiltshire was created by the master Amsterdam mapmaker Joan Blaeu and originally published in his celebrated atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus,...

This detailed political and physical map of County Clare was produced in 1685 by Sir William Petty, drawing on his Down Survey of Ireland, the first detailed land survey carried...

This charming pictorial map of Norfolk was created by Ernest Clegg, one of the most celebrated mapmakers of the early twentieth century, and published in 1945 in the immediate aftermath...

This detailed map of County Cork was compiled by Samuel Lewis and published in 1844 as part of his celebrated topographical survey of Ireland. It captures Ireland's largest county on...

This celebrated map of the British Isles was originally published in 1611 by John Speed, widely regarded as one of the fathers of English cartography and the most notable mapmaker...

This finely detailed map of Edinburgh was drawn by WB Clarke and published by George Cox in 1853, capturing the Scottish capital at the height of the railway age. Scotland's...

This map of Bristol was published in 1588 by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, making it one of the first and rarest printed maps of the city ever produced. It...

This map of Bath was engraved by John Rapkin and published by J. Tallis & Co in 1851, at the height of industrialised Victorian Britain, capturing the elegant Georgian spa...

This map of Ireland was published in 1611 by John Speed as part of his celebrated Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, and remains one of the most beautiful...