British Town Maps

Author : Roger J. P. Kain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712357296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Town Maps written by Roger J. P. Kain and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers' ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they strove to represent and communicate the physical patterns of streets, buildings, and spaces; the "above ground" and the "below ground;" the built structures and the economy; the lives of those who live or work there; and the unseen realities of land ownership, administration, religion, and politics.These maps served a variety of purposes, from guiding travelers, assisting with administration and government, raising taxes, planning the built environment, organizing its defense--and much, much more. Some of the maps in this book are well known, others have languished in obscurity, deep in archives, until revealed by the 10 years' work of a British Academy research project on which this book is founded. Lavishly illustrated in color, it tells the story of the mapping of urban Britain from the late middle ages until modern times. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive index of town maps which have been cataloged on an open-access electronic resource.

Author : Thomas Moule
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1849944970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Maps of England written by Thomas Moule and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities – in large format – by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic history of Britain. Moule’s beautifully observed county and city maps present a minutely detailed record of 19th-century England. They were first published in collectable parts between 1830 and 1837 and then published together in the extensive 2-volume masterwork The English Counties Delineated. Moule celebrated the ‘ancientness’ and history of each county by including pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framed by cartouches, festoons and architectural ornament in a variety of historical styles. But underpinning this ancient vision is the hand of the British Industrial Revolution. Moule’s maps are deeply informed by the early technical work of the Ordnance Survey and record the unstoppable growth of the major cities and the unrelenting spread of the railways. The maps have remained influential and highly collectable as both originals and as reproductions. For the first time in a generation this new large-format volume, comprising 55 county and city maps, presents the main body of Thomas Moule’s work alongside his original detailed text descriptions. The book’s Introduction explains Moule’s career as a writer and antiquary and sets his celebrated maps in the context of the technical cartographic revolution in which they were published. The book examines the wide-ranging artistic and cultural influences exhibited as Moule combines accurate cartography with highly decorative architectural frames and evocative, Romantic, pastoral views of the England he so cherished. In doing so it positions him alongside his fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers, including George Virtue, William Westall, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, JMW Turner, Augustus Pugin, Edward Stanford and George Bradshaw.

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ISBN 13 : 9780948257322
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Maps of British Towns written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Barber
Publisher : British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London written by Peter Barber and published by British Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 2000 years, London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. London: A History in Maps illustrates and helps to explain the transformation using over 400 examples of maps. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official, but sanitized images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts--actual and envisaged--which perhaps present more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about the time when they were created. Peter Barber's book reveals the "inside story" behind one of the world's greatest cities.

Author : Helen Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521551526
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historian's Guide to Early British Maps written by Helen Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Author : Ashley Baynton-Williams
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ISBN 13 : 9781851709410
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town and City Maps of the British Isles, 1800-1855 written by Ashley Baynton-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Mills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019960908X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of British Place-Names written by David Mills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.

Author : William Henry Johns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859671859
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic towns : maps and plans of towns and cities in the British Isles, with historical commentaries, from earlist times to 1800. 2. The atlas of historic towns : Bristol ; Cambridge ; Coventry ; Norwich written by William Henry Johns and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Delano-Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Maps written by Catherine Delano-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory volume on the history of English maps. The authors adopt the revisionist perspectives of the new history of cartography, and review a broad range of maps, ranging in date from about 700 AD to the beginning of the 20th century. Their principle objective is to explore the ways in which maps have interacted with society in England's past, to analyze the roles that maps have played and the uses to which they have been put.

Author : A-Z maps
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008445072
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Britain A-Z Road Atlas 2022 (A4 Spiral) written by A-Z maps and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full color, spiral bound road atlas at A4 size has been fully revised and updated. It contains 170 pages of clear detailed road mapping at a mainland map scale of 3.5 miles to 1 inch. This essential road atlas includes the following: - 11 pages of main route mapping covering Greater London, Birmingham and Manchester - Route planning maps- Mileage chart with average journey times - Information on motorway junctions with limited interchanges - 80 city and town centre street plans - 16 port and airport plans - Channel Tunnel terminus maps - Index to cities, towns, villages, hamlets, major destinations and selected places of interest with postcodes for satnav use - Map reference information also in French and German Instantly recognizable and easy to use, A-Z road mapping includes the following features: Clear standard road classification colors for easy identification, Full motorway junction detail, Under construction and proposed roads, Primary route destinations, Service areas Selected truckstop locations, National and county boundaries and A wide range of tourist and ancillary information, including Blue Flag Beaches.A portable sized publication with a spiral binding; a popular choice for those wanting superb map clarity. Ideal choice to fit in any vehicle glovebox.