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Old Map of England and Wales in 1844 by Lewis - London, Birmingham, Manchester
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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...
Old Map of Huntingdonshire in 1611 by Speed - Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots
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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...
Old Map of the British Isles in 1935 by RNLI - Dover, Plymouth, The Lizard
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This chart was produced in 1935 to record the lifeboat stations of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution around the coasts of the British Isles. The RNLI itself had been founded...
Old OS Map of Suffolk in 1901 by Bartholomew - Ipswich, Framlingham, Orford Ness
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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...
Old Map of County Down in 1844 by Lewis - Belfast, Bangor, Newtownards
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Samuel Lewis published this map of County Down in 1844 as part of the atlas accompanying his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, a companion project to the English dictionary he had...
Old Map of Derbyshire in 1844 by Lewis - Buxton, Ashbourne, Matlock
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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...
Old Map of Southwest London in 1900 by Bacon & Co., Sheet 19 - Bushy Park, Kingston, Twickenham
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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...
Old Map of the English Channel in 1729 by Price - London, Bristol, Cherbourg
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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...
Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1611 by John Speed - Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Kingswood, Filton
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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...
Old OS Map of New Forest and Isle of Wight, Hampshire in 1901 by Bartholomew - Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole Harbour
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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...
Old Map of Cornwall in 1722 by Robert Morden - Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, Bodmin Moor, Land's End
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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...
Old Map of Greater London in 1922 - River Thames, Suburbs, Middlesex, Surrey
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"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...
Old Pictorial Map of Glasgow in 1938 by L.G. Bullock - Glasgow Cathedral, University of Glasgow, Kelvingrove
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Glasgow spent much of 1938 dressed for an occasion the whole British Empire had been invited to, and this pictorial map by L. G. Bullock was drawn to help visitors...
Old Map of County Tyrone in 1685 by Sir William Petty - Strabane, Omagh, Sperrin Mountains, Lough Neagh
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Land in County Tyrone changed hands by force through much of the seventeenth century, and Sir William Petty's survey was built to record exactly who held what afterward. Commissioned to...
Old Map of Manchester in 1793 by Charles Laurent - Salford, Ancoats, Ardwick, River Irwell, River Medlock
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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...
Old Map of Great Britain and Ireland in 1967 - London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Snowdonia National Park, River Thames
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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...
Old OS Map of South Devon in 1901 by Bartholomew - Exeter, Torquay, Dartmoor, Torbay
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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...
Old Map of Hertfordshire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - St Albans, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Hitchin
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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...
Old OS Map of Sussex in 1901 by Bartholomew - Brighton, Hastings, South Downs, Arundel Castle, Beachy Head
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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...
Old Map of Ireland in 1846 by Samuel Lewis - Dublin, Cork, River Shannon, Counties & Provinces
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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...
Old Map of Northern Europe in 1967 by the Polish Army Topography Service - Scandinavia, British Isles, Iceland
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Not every old map on this site was produced for sale to travellers or collectors; this sheet was drawn in 1967 by the Polish Army Topography Service, one of the...
Old Map of Surrey in 1611 by John Speed - Guildford, Croydon, Richmond, Woking
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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...
Old Map of Dublin in 1836 by W.B. Clarke - River Liffey, Leinster, County Dublin
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The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge commissioned this plan of Dublin from William Barnard Clarke, an architect and cartographer who produced several city plans for the Society alongside...
Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead
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First engraved in 1611 for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the earliest atlas to map England and Wales county by county, this sheet shows Berkshire as...
Old Map of Edinburgh in 1581 by Georg Braun - Castle, City Walls, St Giles Cathedral, Old Town
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Drawn as a bird's-eye view rather than a plan seen from directly above, this print reproduces the Edinburgh plate from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the six-volume...
Old Map of British Isles in 1595 by Abraham Ortelius - England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Britannia, Hibernia
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Few atlases changed the shape of commercial map publishing as decisively as Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first issued in Antwerp in 1570 and generally credited as the first modern...
Old Map of Cornwall in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Penzance, St Ives, Falmouth, Land's End, Padstow
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Amsterdam's Blaeu printing house was, by the mid-seventeenth century, the largest and best-equipped map publisher in Europe, and it is this workshop's engraving of Cornwall, titled Cornubia sive Cornwallia, that...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet E1 - Old Street, Finsbury, Moorgate, Barbican, St Luke's
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North of the old City wall, where Moor Fields once lay open and marshy before draining and building over the site, sheet E1 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet B1 - Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Fitzrovia, Soho
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By the 1740s the fields north of Soho were fast disappearing under new streets and squares, and sheet B1 of Rocque's survey is where that transformation shows most clearly. Positioned...
Old Map of Devon in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Plymouth, Exeter, Torquay, Barnstaple
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Devon's long double coastline, facing both the Bristol Channel and the English Channel, gave the county an outsized place in England's maritime history, and this 1665 map by Joan Blaeu...
Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud
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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...
Old Map of Cambridgeshire in 1611 by John Speed - Cambridge, Peterborough, Wisbech, Soft-Colour Edition
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This edition of John Speed's 1611 map of Cambridgeshire returns to the same engraved plate the county is known for, presented here in a softer, wash-toned palette rather than the...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet F1 - Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Hackney
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Few sheets in Rocque's twenty-four-part survey capture a single trade as clearly as sheet F1, drawn across the Huguenot weaving district that grew up around Spitalfields in the decades before...
Old Map of Sussex in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Worthing, Brighton, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis
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Sussex appears on this 1665 plate as a long coastal county stretching between the Weald and the Channel, engraved by Joan Blaeu's workshop for his Atlas Novus alongside the rest...
Old Map of Hampshire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Winchester, Portsmouth, Southampton, Basingstoke
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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...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet E2 - London Bridge, Monument, Bank, Cannon Street, Borough
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Sheet E2 of Rocque's great survey sits directly over the ancient crossing point of the Thames, where London Bridge had carried traffic between the City and Southwark for six centuries...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet F2 - Tower of London, Shad Thames, St Katherine's, Bermondsey
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Where the Thames narrows past the Tower of London, John Rocque's 1746 survey turns to record one of the busiest working stretches of river in England. This sheet, F2 in...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet D2 - St Paul's Cathedral, Blackfriars, Fleet Street, Temple, Bankside
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Sheet D2 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London sits along the working edge of the City, where the built-up streets north of the Thames give way to wharves, stairs...
Old Map of Lancashire in 1611 by John Speed - Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Windermere
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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...
Old Map of Monmouthshire, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Abergavenny, Caldicot, Chepstow, Monmouth, Magor
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For close to four centuries, officials and antiquarians disagreed over whether Monmouthshire properly belonged to Wales or to England, an argument that began when the Laws in Wales Acts of...
Old Map of Aberdeen, Inverness, Moray & Angus in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Dundee, Perth, Fraserburgh, Loch Ness
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Stretching from the Great Glen to the North Sea coast, this 1690 map takes in a wide cross-section of north-east Scotland, published by the Amsterdam partnership of Gerard Valk and...
Old Map of Staffordshire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Lichfield, Tamworth, Cannock Chase
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Staffordshire packed an unusual range of industry and history into one county, and this map was bound into the atlas accompanying Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, a gazetteer that...
Old Map of Munster, Ireland in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - County Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary
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Munster appears on this 1665 map under its Latin name, Momonia, a label typical of the classical polish that the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu brought to his Atlas Novus, a...
Old Map of the Inner & Outer Hebrides in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Mull, Skye, Lochaber, Uist, Harris, Barra
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Amsterdam, rather than Edinburgh or London, was where much of Scotland's coastline first reached print in reliable detail, and this 1690 map of the Hebrides was issued by the Dutch...
Old Map of Lincolnshire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Boston, Grimsby, Spalding, Stamford, Louth
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Few reference works of the early Victorian period were as ambitious as Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, a county-by-county gazetteer that ran through seven editions between 1831 and 1848,...
Old Map of Somerset in 1946 by Ernest Clegg - Bath, Wells, Cheddar Gorge, Dunster Castle, Montacute House
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This pictorial map of Somerset belongs to a short-lived but well-loved series that the illustrator Ernest Clegg produced for the Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund in the years immediately after...
Old Map of West London in 1862 by Edward Stanford - St John's Wood, Kilburn, Kensal Green, Finchley Road, Willesden
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Edward Stanford built his reputation as the pre-eminent map publisher of Victorian London, and this sheet comes from his ambitious Library Map of London, issued in 1862 across twenty-four sheets...
Old Map of Kent in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Gillingham, Margate
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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...
Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet C3 - Lambeth, Vauxhall, Westminster, Millbank, Kennington
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John Rocque's great survey of London ran to twenty-four separate sheets, together forming one of the largest and most detailed city plans produced anywhere in the eighteenth century, and Sheet...
Old Map of Kent in 1724 by Herman Moll - Chatham, Gillingham, Dartford, Maidstone, Bromley, Tunbridge
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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...
