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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 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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

This reproduction print is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Lancashire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and published in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Speed placed a...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 1611 map of Hertfordshire by John Speed gives particular prominence to St Albans, shown with a detailed inset engraving of Verulamium, the Roman city that once stood on the...

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...

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...

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...

This richly detailed map of the Lake District was engraved by John Rapkin and published in 1851 by J. Tallis & Co, one of the leading English mapmaking firms of...

This exceptionally rare map of Lancashire was created by Joan Blaeu, working from his renowned mapmaking workshop in Amsterdam, and was originally published in his monumental "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive...

Drawn by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the 1611 edition of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, this hand-coloured map records the ancient county of...

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...

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...

First published in 1611 as part of John Speed's landmark atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this map presents the county of...

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 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 full-colour map of Wiltshire was created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, first published in 1611 as part of Speed's landmark work "The Theatre of the Empire...

Engraved by Jodocus Hondius and first published in John Speed's 1611 atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, this map presents Northamptonshire as it appeared at the start...

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 reproduction print is based on John Speed's 1611 map of Hertfordshire, engraved by Jodocus Hondius and drawn from his survey work for The Theatre of the Empire of Great...

By 1844 Lancashire had already remade itself twice over. The county that John Speed and Willem Blaeu had mapped in earlier centuries as a landscape of market towns and grazing...

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...

John Speed's 1611 map of Cambridgeshire is one of the great county maps from his landmark atlas, and this print brings it to a modern wall in beautiful detail. The...

John Speed's map of Bedfordshire first appeared in 1611 as part of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the atlas that established him as England's foremost county cartographer...

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...

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...

Published in 1611 as part of John Speed's celebrated atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, this hand-coloured map depicts the ancient county...

This reproduction print is based on Christopher Saxton's 1575 map of Gloucestershire, part of the pioneering county atlas that made Saxton, often called the father of English cartography, a household...

This exceedingly rare, full-colour map of Wiltshire was created by the master Amsterdam mapmaker Joan Blaeu and originally published in his celebrated atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus,...