Cumbria – 1000 Years Of Maps
£29.90
The name Camri first appears on maps in AD1050. Since then the Lake District and historic counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire have been mapped countless times.
Cumbria – 1,000 Years Of Maps features more than 100 charts, surveys and maps from ten centuries of cartography, including:
- the earliest maps, when the world fitted onto a single sheet of A4,
- the first ‘county surveys’ – elaborate in detail, destined for gentry parlours,
- tourist maps – from Thomas West’s viewing stations to Alfred Wainwright’s ‘love letters to the fells’,
- historical maps – illustrative trips to the wad mines of Borrowdale and the first attempts to map Roman Britain,
- maps of the Ordnance Survey – and the evolution of a military department into the best map-maker of its time.
From geological plots to nautical charts, audacious forgeries to postal itineraries, town surveys to military plans, Cumbria – 1,000 Years Of Maps not only profiles the evolution of Cumbrian cartography, it also celebrated the rich social history of a much-loved landscape.
publisher:
Jake Island Ltd
pages:
256
Publication Date:
2024-08-08
format:
Hardback; 300 x 250mm
ISBN:
9781915513052