English Counties & Town Plans

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...

The Great English Mapmaker of Great English Maps John Speed (1552-1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker of the seventeenth...

The West Ridinge of Yorkeshire with the most famous and fayre citie Yorke described Copper engraving, 38.5 x 51 cm, inset plan of York, modern hand...

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...

Double royal station poster, 25 x 40 inches (101 x 63.5 cm) printed in colours, old folds, blank verso. Along with conventional sights and attract...

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...

Lincolnia Comitatus, Anglis Lincolnshire Copper engraving, 42.5 x 51 cm, original hand-colour, light vertical crease to right of centrefold; map of...

Hertfordia Comitatus, vernacule Hertfordshire Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, original hand-colour; map of Hertfordshire with Dutch text to verso. ...

Leicestrensis Comitatus. Leicestershire Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50 cm, original hand-colour; map of Leicestershire with French text on verso. Bla...

Afteekening van de Rivier van London of River Thames [on sheet with] Afteekening van de Iarmouthse Banken geleegen voor Iarmouth Aan de Oost Kust v...

Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey Copper engraving, 63 x 73 cm, original hand-colour, map of Middlesex with black and white vign...

Map of the County of Surrey from an Actual Survey Copper engraving, 63 x 73 cm, original hand-colour, map of Surrey with black and white vignette o...

Gloster City Copper engraving, 35 x 43.5 cm, recent hand-colour, minor restoration at foot of centrefold, blank verso; map of Gloucesterhsire engra...

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