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This charming pictorial map of Yorkshire was created by cartographer Estra Clark in 1948 for British Railways, designed to encourage visitors to explore the region by train during the golden...

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...

This extraordinary hand-coloured map of Yorkshire was created by the master Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1654, published in his celebrated Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Nearly 400 years old, this is...

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 is a spectacular map of West Yorkshire by John Speed, published in 1611 in his monumental "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine." Speed's Yorkshire map represents the...

The West Riding of Yorkshire was already one of England's busiest manufacturing regions when Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam engraved this map for his Atlas Maior, first issued in 1662...

This exquisite hand-coloured map reveals the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1611, meticulously crafted by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius. Originally published in Speed's "The Theatre of the...

This is a striking Victorian-era map of York, created by the mapmakers Tallis and Rapkin and published in 1851. By this period, York remained one of the nation's most historically...

Unveil the storied layers of York with this captivating pictorial map, presenting a city shaped by Roman foundations, Viking invasions, and medieval ambitions. Charming illustrations highlight ancient walls that once...

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...

First engraved in 1575, this is the earliest printed map of Somersetshire, created by Christopher Saxton, the Yorkshire-born surveyor often called the father of English cartography. It formed part of...

Published in 1827 by the cartographer and publisher Anthony Finley, this map presents the historic counties of England and Wales in one richly coloured sheet, each county picked out in...

Engraved by John Rapkin and published by J. Tallis & Co in 1851, this detailed map captures Sheffield at the height of its Victorian industrial power. The city is shown...

First published in 1611 by the English cartographer John Speed and engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, this map formed part of Speed's landmark atlas, The Theatre of the Empire...

Samuel Lewis built his publishing business around an enormous reference project, the Topographical Dictionary of England, which set out to describe every city, town, and parish in the country along...

This exquisite map of Warwickshire comes from John Speed's monumental atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine," published in 1611. Speed was England's foremost cartographer of county maps,...

This beautifully hand-coloured map depicts ancient Cheshire in 1611, the work of celebrated cartographer John Speed and engraver Jodocus Hondius. Originally published in Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of...

Worcestershire was among the English counties John Speed surveyed for The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611 and engraved, like the rest of the atlas, by...

This monochrome reproduction is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Derbyshire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and originally published in Speed's county-by-county atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great...

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...

This print reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Staffordshire, one of the county surveys engraved by Jodocus Hondius for Speed's landmark English atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great...

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 was originally published in 1834 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a London-based educational body known as SDUK that issued affordable, carefully researched maps and...

Published in 1834 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, this fascinating map looks back nearly two thousand years to chart Britain as it stood before and during...

This is a beautiful historical map of Shropshire from John Speed's monumental 1611 county atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine." Shropshire, positioned on the Welsh border, is...