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Between 1829 and the early 1840s the Society's map committee issued more than two hundred plates through the publishers Baldwin and Cradock, engraved with meticulous care by the firm of J. and C. Walker. This particular sheet, England with its Canals and Railways, was issued on the first of October 1837 and captures a transport network still very much in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a handful of railway lines existed anywhere in England and Wales when this map was drawn, just seven years after the Liverpool and Manchester Railway had opened in 1830 as the world's first true inter-city passenger line worked entirely by steam locomotives. The map traces that pioneering route, along with the newer Grand Junction Railway linking Birmingham to the north-west, London's short Greenwich line, and the older Stockton and Darlington line further north. 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John Speed's map, engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam and published in 1611 as part of the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, sidesteps the dispute by including Monmouthshire among the Welsh counties, complete with the hundred divisions and decorative town plan inset that were a hallmark of Speed's atlas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe county Speed surveyed was already thick with castles built to guard the Welsh border: Chepstow, one of the oldest surviving stone castles in Britain, stands above the Wye near the county's southern tip, while Monmouth itself, birthplace of Henry V, sits where the Monnow meets the Wye further upstream. Abergavenny appears with its own castle, site of a notorious killing of Welsh noblemen by the Anglo-Norman lord William de Braose in 1175, and Caldicot and Magor are both marked in the low-lying country near the Severn estuary, an area of ancient drained wetland known locally as the Caldicot Levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeed's early placement of Monmouthshire among the Welsh counties, decades before the dispute over its status was even settled by law in 1972, gives this print its own small historical footnote, and makes it a conversation-starting gift for anyone with Monmouthshire or border-country roots. 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