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Frontispiece: Map of EnglandA Short History of the English People (1902)

This 1902 map shows an England of over 100 years ago. It is attributed to Stanford’s Geographical Establishment.

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-08-26

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Map of the AmericasThe New World (1671)

Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americæ Descriptio per Gerardum a Schagen. This map of both North America and South America shows California as an island. The map was popular, and was probably first [...]

Keywords: maps, greyscale, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-09

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Map of the New Forest and Adjacent CountryLaws and History of the New Forest (1811)

Map of the New Forest and surrounding area, published in 1811; it shows Christchurch Bay and the Southampton River to the South, Titchfield and Owselbury to the East, Christchurch and Cranborne to the [...]

Keywords: maps, colour, forests, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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27.—Abury. Extended Plan.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A map covering a larger area than that of Fig. 26. “The general view (Fig. 25) is a restoration formed upon the plan (Fig. 26). Upon that plan there are two openings through the bank and ditch, a and [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, druids, megaliths, temples, ruins, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-08-29

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3. Castle Hedingham, EssexThe Growth of the English House (1909)

Plans of the Keep.
1. Ground Floor, or Basement.
2. First, or Entrance Floor.
3. The Great Hall.
4. Upper part of Hall, with Gallery.
5. Room over Hall.

Keywords: castles, plans, maps, architecture, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Antique map of KentThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

This map of Kent was published in 1783; it shows, in the Lathe of Sutton, Woolwich, Greenwich, Eltham, Lewisham, Brownley, Dartford, S. Mary Cray, Dunton, Farmingham, Sevenoke [Sevenoak], Westerham. S [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-13

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The Map of BerkshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Berkshire in England, from 1783. Note: I have only a very few of these: I own volumes one and two of the series, but volume two was sold to me via eBay and was ent [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Berkshire; England

Added: 2005-08-21

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51.—Plan and Section of Chun CastleOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Chûn Castle is in West Penwith, Cornwall; it was built about 2,500 years ago. Remains of tin smelting have been found there, strengthening the suggestions that tin mining was active in Cornwall in at [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, castles, greyscale

Places shown: Chun Castle; Morvah; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-06-03

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52.—Plan of Chambers at BallyhendonOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Camden has given a rude [crude] representation of two caverns near Tilbury in Essex, “spacious caverns in a chalky cliff, built very artificially of stone to the height of ten fathoms [18 metres, or [...]

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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53.—Plan of Chambers on a Farm twelve miles from BallyhendonOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

see Fig. 52 for notes.

Keywords: plans, maps, monuments, druids, greyscale

Places shown: Fermoy; County Tipperary; Ireland

Added: 2005-06-18

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Peak Castle, Derbyshire: Plan of the Site.The Growth of the English House (1909)

Peak Castle is today known as Peveril Castle, and is high above the village of Castleton in the Peak District national park. “It is tolerably certain that romance had no part in the selection of this [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, greyscale

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-10-16

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BuckinghamshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Buckinghamshire in England, from 1783. Places marked on the map include the following: The Hundreds: A. Newport; B. Buckingham; C. Cottslow; D. Ashenden; E. Alesbu [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-11-04

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The Map of BedfordshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public-domain map of Bedfordshire from 1783. Places marked on the map include: Ampthill, Aspely Guise [Aspley Guise], Astwood, Battledon, Bedford, Berkford, Bigleswade [Biggleswade], Biscot, Bletnes [...]

Keywords: colour, maps

Places shown: Bedfordshire; England

Added: 2005-08-21

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106.—Plan of Pevensey Castle.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

On the north side was a few years since a fragment of a supposed Saxon keep, held to be an addition to the original Roman Castrum (Fig. 109). But the most important and interesting adaptation to anoth [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, castles, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-06-24

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CambridgeshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Cambridgeshire in England, from 1783. Places marked on the map include the following: Abbingtons, Arrington, Audre, Batsham, Bedelhey, Bigleswade (Bedfordshire), B [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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125.—Silchester. Plan of City.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

a, The Western Gate, near to which the Road now leads to the church near b, the Eastern Gate; c, the South Gate; d, the North Gate.

Silchester was a Romantown in England.

Keywords: plans, maps, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Silchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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19. Stokesay Castle, Shropshire (cir. 1240-90).The Growth of the English House (1909)

Ground Plan.

There are lots of other pictures of Stokesay Castle here; try a search for Shropshire.

Keywords: plans, maps, castles, colour

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Map: River Wye, Chepstow, etc.South Wales and the Wye District of Monmouthshire (1892)

This old map covers the Wye valley from Trellech and Llandog in the North, through Brockweir and Tintern Parva wit Tintern abbey, down past Windcliff and Llancant into Chepstow and the Mouth of the Wy [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Wales

Added: 2006-08-11

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[p.210] The Tower of LondonLondon (Volume II) (1841)

A birds-eye view: a map or plan of the castle. From a Print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society, and engraved from the Survey made in 1597, by W. Haiward and J. Gascoigne, by order of Sir J. Pe [...]

Keywords: castles, maps, plans, diagrams, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2005-07-15

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43.—From Colosseum to Capitol.Mediaeval Rome (1901)

This is a fold-out map of Rome (or, a plan of part of Rome, I should say) between pages 40 and 41. The text printed under the map is as follows: 1. Temple of Romulus. 2. Temple of the Sacred City (now [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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