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This extraordinary map of Wales was compiled in 1580 by Christopher Saxton, widely regarded as the father of British cartography. It was one of the earliest attempts to accurately chart...

This vividly coloured map of Wales was produced in 1645 by Jean (Joan) Blaeu, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the Dutch Golden Age, working from his renowned workshop...

This is a rare full colour map of Wales from 1610, created by John Speed - widely regarded as the finest British cartographer of the Stuart era. It was first...

This celebrated map of the British Isles was originally published in 1611 by John Speed, widely regarded as one of the fathers of English cartography and the most notable mapmaker...

This is a powerful historical and ethnographic map of ancient Britain from 1856, presenting the island as it existed in antiquity — the age of Iron Age tribes, Celtic settlements,...

This map of the complete British Isles — England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland — was originally published in 1611 by John Speed, widely regarded as one of the founding figures...

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...

Embark on a journey through the heart of England and Wales with this meticulously restored map, capturing the county boundaries, historic roads, and notable landmarks that shaped both regions. Sourced...

This is a remarkable and specialised geological and railway map of England and Wales from 1834, representing the cutting edge of both geological science and transportation innovation, at a moment...

This richly illustrated historical map of England and Wales was created by the cartographer L.G. Bullock in 1958, and belongs to a tradition of pictorial maps that turn geography into...

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 striking full-colour map charts the railways, canals and waterways of the British Isles at their Victorian peak, engraved by G.H. Swanston and published by A. Fullarton & Co in...

This reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Anglesey, one of the county maps from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first comprehensive county-by-county...

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...

This unusual map shows the geology of England and Wales in remarkable detail, mapping the rock formations across both nations. It was created by the geologist Roderick Impey Murchison and...

In 1573, Christopher Saxton set out under a royal patent from Elizabeth I to survey every county in England and Wales, a project that would culminate in 1579 with the...

Macdonald Gill spent much of his career designing maps that were meant to be looked at as much as read, and his map of agriculture and fisheries in England and...

This large hand-coloured map, first published in 1843 by Chapman & Hall, charts the geology of England & Wales as understood by Roderick Impey Murchison, one of the most influential...

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...

This is a striking map of the Great Western Railway network as it stood in 1950, showing just how extensive the British rail system was before the Beeching cuts of...

By 1881, when A.K. Johnston published this railway map of England and Wales, the country's rail network had reached its Victorian peak, a dense mesh of competing companies criss-crossing every...

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge did not exist to flatter its readers; founded in London in 1826 by Lord Brougham and a circle of reform-minded Whigs, its...

Cross centuries of evolving monarchies and Gaelic folklore with this Antique British Isles Map Reproduction, showcasing a time when castles dotted lonely coastlines and bustling ports fed the ambitions of...

Published in Letts's popular Victorian atlas and dated 1884, this map is as much a statistical chart as it is a work of cartography, tracing the rapidly expanding railway network...

Created by John Speed and engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, this map of Pembrokeshire was first published in 1611 within Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the...

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...

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...

This exceedingly rare monochrome map shows Great Britain - England, Scotland and Wales - as it was believed to appear during the fifth and sixth centuries AD, under the Anglo-Saxon...

By the middle of the nineteenth century the fashion for lavishly decorated national maps was already fading, yet John Tallis's 1851 map of the British Isles stands as one of...

This is one of the oldest and most fascinating maps of Great Britain, engraved by Jan Jansson in 1645, depicting the nation as it was during the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy of...

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...

This charming reproduction reproduces a richly illustrated pictorial map of the British Isles first published in 1939 by the American artist Ernest Dudley Chase. Chase trained as a graphic artist...

This reproduction reproduces a striking 1752 sea navigation chart of the British Isles, created by the English chart-makers Page & Mount. Unlike a conventional land map, this is a working...

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...

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 double-county sheet of Sussex and Surrey was published in 1794 by the London cartographer John Cary, forming sheet 16 of his ambitious New Map of England and Wales, with...

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...

Tin built Cornwall's medieval economy long before John Speed set out to map the county in 1611, and the ancient stannary system that governed the tin trade shapes much of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This unusual map shows the geological and palaeontological regions of the entire British Isles - England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland - as recorded in 1854. It was engraved by A.K....

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 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...

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 reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Dorset, or Dorsetshire as it was then known, taken from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the...

This richly detailed map of Lincolnshire was created by John Speed, the celebrated Elizabethan and Jacobean cartographer, and engraved by the Dutch master engraver Jodocus Hondius. It was first published...

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...

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...