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Engraved by Jodocus Hondius and first published in John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine in 1611, this hand-coloured map surveys the ancient county of Essex as...

Joan Blaeu inherited the great Amsterdam mapmaking business founded by his father Willem and pushed it to its most spectacular expression in the Atlas Maior, a multi-volume world atlas published...

Herman Moll was a Dutch-born cartographer who settled in London and became one of the most prolific English mapmakers of the early 18th century, producing detailed county surveys as well...

Christopher and John Greenwood were among the most ambitious English cartographers of the early 19th century, running a survey business that set out in the 1810s to map every English...

Drawn by Samuel Lewis in 1844, this map records the county of Essex at a pivotal moment, just as the railway age was beginning to reshape the county's towns and...

John Speed was a tailor by trade before he turned to cartography, and by 1611 his atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had made him the best-known...

This map of Glasgow was produced by John Tallis and engraved by John Rapkin, published in 1851 as part of Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, a series celebrated for combining detailed city...

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 reproduction print is based on Christopher Saxton's 1575 map of Gloucestershire, part of the pioneering county atlas that made Saxton, often called the father of English cartography, a household...

Compiled for John Speed's 1611 Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first printed atlas devoted entirely to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Gloucestershire sheet stands out even...

This reproduction print is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Gloucestershire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and published in his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine....

Two very different landscapes meet on this map of Gloucestershire, engraved in 1665 by Joan Blaeu from his Amsterdam workshop for the English volume of his Atlas Novus. To the...

The mid-1960s were an odd moment to map Great Britain and Ireland, caught between an older county geography and the motorway age that was only just beginning. By 1967 the...

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 published this railway map of Great Britain in 1850, engraved by John Rapkin under the full title Tallis's Railway Map of Great Britain Showing the Railways Completed, and...

"Greater London" meant something different in 1922 than it does today, referring not to a unit of local government but to the wider statistical area that the Registrar General had...

This vibrant, full-colour map of Hampshire was created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, first published in 1611 as part of Speed's landmark work "The Theatre of the...

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...

Joan Blaeu's Amsterdam workshop engraved this map of Hampshire for inclusion in the Atlas Novus, the great multi-volume survey of the world's countries that made the Blaeu name famous across...

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...

A beautiful and detailed map of Herefordshire, created by John Speed in 1611 as part of his groundbreaking county atlas. Speed's Herefordshire sheet captures this picturesque English border county during...

Samuel Lewis built his reputation on thoroughness rather than decoration. His multi-volume Topographical Dictionary of England, first issued in the 1830s and revised through the 1840s, set out to describe...

This reproduction print is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Hertfordshire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and drawn from his survey work for The Theatre of the Empire of Great...

This 1611 map of Hertfordshire by John Speed gives particular prominence to St Albans, shown with a detailed inset engraving of Verulamium, the Roman city that once stood on the...

This map of Hertfordshire was created by the celebrated Amsterdam mapmaker Joan Blaeu and originally published in 1665 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great...

By 1844, Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England had run through several editions, and the county map bound into each volume gave readers a visual companion to his parish-by-parish...

John Speed produced this map of Huntingdonshire in 1611, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and first published in Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, one of the earliest atlases...

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...

This map of Ireland was created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, first published in 1611 as part of Speed's landmark county atlas, The Theatre of the Empire...

This sheet was published in 1618 by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg as part of their monumental town-atlas Civitates Orbis Terrarum — 'Cities of the World' — a series that...

Unlike the pocket atlases and folded county sheets typical of eighteenth-century cartography, this map of Ireland was designed from the outset to be read at a distance, as a large...

Samuel Lewis compiled his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland as a reference work first and an atlas second, but the 1846 edition of that dictionary came with a full set of...

This is a hand-coloured Victorian map of Ireland from 1851, created by the mapmakers John Tallis and Rapkin. By mid-century, Ireland was deeply integrated into the United Kingdom, and this...

This stunning 1883 antique map of Ireland provides a detailed view of the country’s political and geographical divisions during the 19th century. Featuring major cities such as Dublin, Cork, and...

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 reproduction print is based on a rare and richly coloured map of the Isle of Man, first engraved in 1611 by John Speed and cut by the Dutch engraver...

This print reproduces Philip Symonson's 1596 map of Kent, one of the earliest detailed county surveys of the area and drawn from Symonson's own travels around the county before being...

In 1611 the celebrated English cartographer John Speed produced one of the most detailed county maps ever made of Kent, and this reproduction brings his original engraving back to a...

This 1611 map of Kent by John Speed shows the county from an inland perspective, with Maidstone, the historic county town on the River Medway, and Tunbridge, later home to...

What sets Joan Blaeu's map of Kent apart from the English county maps it was based on is the sheer decorative ambition of the Amsterdam workshop that produced it. Issued...

Long before Trafalgar or the ironclads of the Victorian navy, the Royal Navy's fighting ships were built, repaired and laid up along the River Medway, and it is that maritime...

Published by William Faden in 1801 and issued here in its updated 1809 state, this map of Kent holds a genuinely special place in British map history: it was the...

Christopher and John Greenwood were among the most ambitious English cartographers of the early 19th century, running a survey business that set out in the 1810s to map every English...

Two very different kinds of Victorian ambition meet on this 1844 map of Kent. Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, from which this plate is drawn, was itself a product...

Published in 1947 by the illustrator and mapmaker Ernest Clegg, this richly decorated pictorial map presents Kent in the years immediately after the Second World War. At its centre sits...

This is a magnificent historical map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Middlesex from 1575, created by the English cartographer Christopher Saxton, widely regarded as the founder of English scientific cartography....

This richly detailed map of the Lake District was engraved by John Rapkin and published in 1851 by J. Tallis & Co, one of the leading English mapmaking firms of...

This reproduction print is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Lancashire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and published in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Speed placed a...

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...

An oddity of the historic county of Lancashire is that its boundary once reached north across Morecambe Bay to take in a detached block of the Lake District, and John...