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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 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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...