England Maps

This is sheet A2 of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque, engraved by John Pine and published in 1746. It was the...

This print reproduces Christopher Saxton's landmark map of England and Wales, first published in 1579 and widely regarded as the earliest printed survey to lay out the two countries together...

Abraham Ortelius was the great Flemish cartographer whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in 1570, is widely regarded as the world's first true atlas, gathering maps from across Europe into...

Bernard Sleigh was a Birmingham-born illustrator and engraver best known for his richly decorative pictorial maps, which combined historical cartography with hand-drawn vignettes of local landmarks and figures in a...

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...

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...

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...

Edward Stanford was the leading London map publisher of the Victorian era, running the celebrated map shop that still trades today from Covent Garden and producing detailed district-by-district surveys of...

This map of County Durham was published in 1665 by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great atlases...

This map of Sussex was produced around 1724 by Herman Moll, a Dutch-born cartographer who built his career in London and became one of the most prolific English mapmakers of...

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...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

This map of Norfolk was published in 1665 by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu, part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the defining atlases of the...

This map of Somerset was produced by the celebrated Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu and published in 1665 as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the...

This map of Norfolk 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...

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...

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...

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

This sheet is part of what is widely regarded as the greatest large-scale map of London ever produced: the twenty-four sheet survey put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque...

This map of Wiltshire was published in 1801 by John Cary, part of the same series of county surveys that established him as one of the foremost English cartographers of...

This map of Dorset was published in 1806 by John Cary, one of the leading London mapmakers of the Georgian period. It formed part of Cary's programme of county surveys...

Samuel Lewis produced this map of Cornwall in 1844 as part of his county-by-county survey accompanying the Topographical Dictionary of England, recording parishes and settlements across the county alongside a...

John Cary engraved this map of Sussex in 1801, part of the same series of English county surveys that established his reputation for plain, accurate engraving over the more decorative...

Samuel Lewis surveyed this map of Surrey in 1844 for inclusion alongside his Topographical Dictionary of England, a written and cartographic record that aimed to catalogue every English parish with...

This 1844 map of Yorkshire was produced by Samuel Lewis as part of the same nationwide series of county surveys that accompanied his Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work...

Samuel Lewis compiled this map of Northamptonshire in 1844 as part of the county surveys accompanying his Topographical Dictionary of England, a project that set out to record every English...

John Cary produced this map of Northumberland in 1801 as part of the same programme of English county surveys that carried his name across the map trade in London for...

John Cary was one of the most trusted commercial engravers working in London around 1800, known for the plain, exacting linework he brought to his county surveys after years producing...

This map of Shropshire was engraved in 1844 for the county atlas that accompanied Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, the companion project to his Irish and Welsh dictionaries. Lewis's...

This plan of the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields was published in 1720, when John Strype issued his greatly expanded edition of John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and...

This hand-coloured map of the whole of Yorkshire was first published in 1690 by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, two Amsterdam-based mapmakers who worked together producing decorative and topographical maps...

This map of Dorset was engraved in 1844 to accompany Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work that aimed to record every county, parish and market town in...

This map of Warwickshire was engraved in 1844 to accompany Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, a multi-volume reference that set out to describe every county, parish and market town...

This map reproduces Sheet 9 of G.W. Bacon & Co.'s New Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs, first issued in 1900. Bacon's firm, based in the Strand, built its...

Samuel Lewis published this hand-coloured map of England and Wales, divided into counties, in 1844 as part of the atlas that accompanied his Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work...

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...

John George Bartholomew, the Scottish cartographer behind one of the best-known mapping firms of the period, published this sheet of Suffolk in 1901 as part of his Half-Inch to the...

Samuel Lewis published this map of Derbyshire in 1844 as one of the county sheets accompanying his Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work that eventually ran to fifty-seven maps...

Bacon & Co., a London map publisher known for large-scale suburban mapping at the turn of the twentieth century, issued this sheet in 1900 as part of their New Large...

Charles Price, a London bookseller and publisher who belonged to both the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, produced this chart of the English Channel in...

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...

Few Bartholomew sheets pair two such different landscapes side by side as this one does, ancient forest and island coastline sharing a single half-inch map. Issued in 1901 as Sheet...

Not every mapmaker of the period worked first as a surveyor and second as a tradesman; Robert Morden ran that equation the other way round. Trading at the sign of...

"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...

Two survey projects were racing to map Manchester in the early 1790s, and Charles Laurent's reached print first. William Green had been carrying out a meticulous large-scale survey of the...

Half an inch to the mile was the scale that made John Bartholomew's name among Edwardian travellers, and Sheet 36 of his layered-relief series for England and Wales covers South...

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...

A dispute with the Ordnance Survey over the use of its name forced John George Bartholomew to rename his popular reduced survey maps in 1901, dropping "Ordnance" from the title...

Long before Croydon, Richmond and Kingston were transferred into Greater London under the London Government Act of 1965, they belonged firmly within Surrey, and this map of the county, engraved...