English Counties & Town Plans

This road map includes Winchester and Southampton, and extends as far as Poole. It was published as sheet 97 in the 1698 folio edition of John Ogi...

This road map includes London, Bow, Chelmsford, the city of Colchester, and extends as far as Harwich. It was published as sheet 19 in the 1698 fol...

  This road map includes London, Islington, and Highgate, and extends as far as Towcester. It was published as sheet 21 in the 1698 folio edition o...

This map of Middlesex is characteristic of mapmaker John Cary's clear and elegant style, which established him as one the best cartographic engrave...

This attractive, detailed map of the county of Middlesex is unsigned; as yet, we have been unable to identify the engraver. Condition & Materia...

Ellis' map of Middlesex conveys a wealth of detailed information: borough towns are shown with stars identifying the number of Members returned to ...

This map of Middlesex, with a vignette of St. Paul's Cathedral, was published in James Bell’s 'New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales...

This is the second, 1808, edition of Charles Smith's map of Middlesex. It first appeared in his 'New English Atlas, Being A Complete Set of County ...

This finely engraved map of Middlesex, with a vignette view of St.Pauls Cathedral, was printed from a steel plate and apparently among the first co...

This map of Middlesex was published in Reuben Ramble's ‘Travels through the Counties of England’, an uncommon county atlas for children. Reuben Ram...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Giuliano Zuliano after Giovanni Pitteri and published in Antonia Zatta's  ‘Atlante Novissimo’. This was his f...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

This is Blaeu’s map, after Hondius and Janssonius, of the ‘inundated areas’ of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire ...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722 and ...

Publish or Perish Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles ...

William Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England, Britannia. As he continued to revise and expand th...

Construction on the Manchester Shipping Canal began in 1887, and the canal opened in 1894. It was an engineering marvel, the largest river navigati...

This birds-eye plan of Cambridge printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (presumably the Eastern Region). Hinc lucem et pocula sacra...

This pictorial plan of central Oxford was printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (Western Region). Dominus illuminatio mea The arms...

This map of Suffolk is from a series of maps engraved 1787-1791 and subsequently published in atlas form as “Maps of the English Counties”. Conditi...

Thomas Moule was a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last really decorative seri...

Hot damn, it’s Herefordshire! Copper engraving, 53.5 x 43.5 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. Characteristically clear and elegant map of Here...

Map of York showing the position of the Licensed Houses (Fifteen Licensed Houses in the outlying parts of the City are not included in this Map). L...

Suthsexia, vernacule Sussex Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cm, modern hand-colour, closed centrefold split with some marginal restoration, lower rig...

Cantuaria, Canterbury. Copper engraving, 11.2 x 13.2 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. Plan of Canterbury, Kent, from Hermannides' Magna ...

Rochestria. Copper engraving, 11.2 x 13.2 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. Plan of Rochester, Kent from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. N...

Lancastria. Lancaster. Copper engraving, 11.2 x 13.2 cm, black and white as issued, trivial waterstaining in lower margin, blank verso. Plan of Lan...

Glocester. Glovernia. Claudiocestria. Copper engraving, 11.2 x 13.2 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. Plan of Gloucester, Gloucestershir...

Map of the Grand Junction Railway and its Adjacent Country. [Copied by permission from the Company’s official map.] Shewing all the the stations on...

A new gradually encreasing Compass-Map of part of the Sea Coasts of England, in which is contained the Coasts of Sussex, extending from Eastwards o...

G. Bradshaw’s Map of Canals, Navigable Rivers, Rail Roads etc. in the Southern Counties of England. From actual survey shewing heights of the ponds...

Beatles Map [contained in] The Beatles Collection – from Liverpool to the World This pictorial map of Liverpool (sheet size 46 x 40.5 cm, printed i...

Cantium vernacule Kent The Race to Map Britain Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out ...

Mary, Mary: Where Did Your Bookshop Go? Quad royal station poster, 40 x 50 inches (101.5 x 127 cm), printed in colours, blank verso. A pictorial ma...

Lavenham in the Hundred of Babergh in the County of Suffolk Pictorial map of Lavenham, sheet size 50.5 x 54.5 cm, printed in colours, decorated wit...

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Thea...

Eboracensis Comitatus […] pars Orientalis, vulgo East Riding. Copper engraving, 20 x 25 cm; map of the East Riding of Yorkshire engraved by William...

Wesmorlandia e comitatis. Copper engraving, 27 x 31.5 cm; map of Westmorland engraved by William Kip after Christopher Saxton, modern hand-colour, ...

Suffolk Copper engraving, 15 x 20 cm, recent hand colour, blank verso. This map of Sussex was first issued in The London Magazine, which between 17...

A Map of Somersetshire. Copper engraving, 18 x 12 cm, modern hand-colour, paper thinning affecting a couple of letters of the descriptive text at t...

Copper engraving, 42.5 x 36 cm, modern hand-colour, a couple of closed marginal nicks and tears, a map of Cambridgeshire with blank verso. Robert ...

Episcopatus Dunelmensis, vulgo the Bishoprick of Durham Copper engraving, 36.5 x 42 cm, modern hand-colour, light stain in bottom left hand corner ...

Copper engraving, 34.5 x 41.5 cm, modern hand-colour, repairs to right and left hand margins, a map of Gloucestershire with blank verso. Robert Mo...

A tiny little Oxfordshirette Copper engraving, 15.5 x 16 cm, black and white, blank verso; map of Oxfordshire engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade...

Mini-Middlesex Copper engraving, 15.5 x 15.5 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade’s ‘Chorographia Britannia...

Herefordia Comitatus vernacule Herefordshire Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, recent hand-colour, French text on verso. Map of Herefordshire. Joanne...

Episcopatus Dunelmensis. Vulgo The Bishoprike of Durham Copper engraving, 38 x 49.5 cm, modern hand colour, single conjugate wormhole; map of Count...