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Part 3: 1727 to 1820 Part 4: 1820 onwards |
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| These pages are for new collectors or for those persons who did not know that such a wealth of old maps are there to be collected. I shall list roughly in date order some of the cartographers to keep a look out for when building your collection of British County Maps. I keep returning to this guide each week to add more information.
SCOTLAND & IRELAND. The range of county maps to collect is much smaller than England as many cartographers only covered Scotland by a map of the country or a map of the North and another of the South. The same goes for Ireland although there are sometimes individual maps of the Provinces.
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 The daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn |
Born at Greenwich Palace, London in 1533 Ascended the throne in 1558 Did not marry Died at Richmond in 1603, aged 70 |
| LUCAS JANZ WAGEHHAER | Coastal Charts |
| CHRISTOPHER SAXTON | 1579. The first county maps of England and Wales. Some counties are grouped with others on a folio sheet. Example List of Maps in the Atlas |
| GEORG BRAUN & FRANZ HOGENBERG | 1572 - 1617. Town Plans. List of British Isles Plans |
| Spanish Armada | 29th July, 1588. Huge fleet of warships sighted off the Lizard in Cornwall. |
| PIETER VAN DEN KEERE | 1593 - Miniature county maps of England and Wales. Areas of Scotland and the provinces of Ireland. Example |
| GERHARD MERCATOR |
1595 - Folio and smaller maps of areas of British Isles. Regional Maps
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| FRANCESCO VALEGIO | 1595. Bird's Eye Views of a few English Cities. |
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 The son of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry, Lord Darnley |
Born at Edinburgh Castle in 1566 Ascended the throne in 1603 Married Anne of Denmark Had three sons and four daughters Died at Theobalds in 1625, aged 59 |
| Guy Fawkes | 5th November, 1605 Guy Fawkes is found beneath Westminster guarding 20 barrels of gunpowder with the intention of blowing up king and parliament |
| JOHN SPEED | 1611 onwards. English and Welsh county maps. Maps of the Irish provinces. Example What did he look like and who was he? The various editions of his atlas List of Maps in the Atlas and more illustrations The plates |
| WILLIAM HOLE & WILLIAM KIP |
1607, 1610 & 1637. County maps of England and Wales. Example How to Date Them List of maps in the atlas and other illustrations |
| MICHAEL DRAYTON | 1612 - Strange maps of parts of England and Wales. Example List of Maps in the Poly-Olbion and other illustrations |
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Born at Dunfermline in 1600 Ascended the throne in 1625 Married Henrietta Maria of France Had four sons and five daughters Executed at Whitehall, London in 1649, aged 48 years |
| The son of James I and Anne of Denmark | |
| JOHN BILL | 1626 . Scarce miniature county maps of England and Wales. Example |
| Civil War Battle | 1642 Edgehill |
| Civil War Battle | 1642 Worcester |
| Civil War Battle | 1643 Devizes |
| MATTHEW SIMMONS | 1636 - Small English county maps set into the corner of a sheet showing a Table of Distances. Example |
| Civil War Battle | 1643 and 1644 Newbury |
| Civil War Battle | 1644 Marston Moor |
| JOAN BLAEU | 1645 - Fine county maps of England, Wales and Scotland. Published in Amsterdam. List of maps in his English Atlas and other illustrations Atlas Frontispiece The Blaeu Family |
| Civil War Battle | 1645 Naseby |
| JAN JANSSON | 1646 - County maps of England and Wales plus parts of Scotland and Ireland. |
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Born at Huntingdon in 1599 |
| Dictator from 1653 to 1658 | |
| Civil War Battle | 1651 Worcester |
| NICOLAS SANSON | 1658 - Groups of Counties |
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Part 3: 1727 to 1820 Part 4: 1820 onwards |
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