About the site
The site has a homepage and six main sections which are listed in the menu at the side of this page. The homepage can be reached by clicking on the compass that appears in the top left-hand corner of all pages except those with the largest images.
Navigation of the site should, I hope, be simple and intuitive using the menus at the left-hand side of most pages and at the top of the pages with the largest images. A sub-menu will appear below the main menu when you visit the general maps and tables or the county and regional maps sections. All webpage designers think their sites are easy to navigate but they are often wrong. Please accept my apologies in advance for any shortcomings you find and contact me with any error reports, comments or suggestions as to how the site might be improved.
Images of the maps and tables are in three different sizes:
- Mini images are 200 pixels wide and give a general impression of the map or table, although the wording is not readable. Clicking on any mini image leads to a page with a midi image.
- The size of the midi images has been chosen so that their width fits, with a menu beside them, into a browser window on a monitor with 800x600 screen resolution. A lot of the wording on this size image is readable on screen, although this is dependent upon a number of things - the original text size, the quality of the monitor and the quality of the viewer's eyesight are obvious factors!
- Maxi images can be accessed from the menu which is always located to the left of a midi image. Their size has been chosen so that their width fits into a browser window on a monitor with 1024x768 screen resolution. These images are JPEG files with sizes of the order of 250-300K so they could take more than a minute to download with a 56K modem.
Smith, David, 1982. Antique Maps of the British Isles, B T Batsford, London
Skelton, R A, 1970. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850, A bibliography 1579-1703, Carta Press, London.
Hodson, Donald, 1984. County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703. Vol I, Atlases published 1704 to 1742 and their subsequent editions, The Tewin Press, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Hodson, Donald, 1989. County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703. Vol II, Atlases published 1743 to 1763 and their subsequent editions, The Tewin Press, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Hodson, Donald, 1997. County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703. Vol III, Atlases published 1764 to 1789 and their subsequent editions, The British Library, London.
Three lists of links:
- Oddens Bookmarks
A regularly updated listing of map and cartographic sites which now has over 20,000 links. - Map History/History of Cartography
Another regularly updated site which is part of the WWW-Virtual Library. It has over 2,500 links to information about early maps including several hundred image sites. - Images of Early Maps on the Web
Links to the image sites on the Map History/History of Cartography pages.
- Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
Images of three of the maps from John Speed's atlas (more are promised) together with details from other maps including cities and towns, heraldry, costumes etc. - Genmaps - Old Maps of Great Britain
A large selection of early maps of English, Welsh and Scottish counties. - Pictures in Print - Durham.
Maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860. - Old Hampshire Mapped
A selection of maps of Hampshire from 1575 to 1826, each with detailed accompanying notes. - Old Sussex Mapped
A selection of maps of Sussex from 1610 to 1840. This site is modelled on the Old Hampshire Mapped site - see above. - The Principality of Wales Exactly Described
A site with images of all the maps in Thomas Taylor's county atlas of Wales published in 1718. - Maps of Scotland 1560-1928
About eight hundred of the most important maps from the first four centuries of the mapping of Scotland.