Northumberland & Cumberland. 1616 Petrus Bertius
Northumberland. 1617 Pieter van den Keere, published by Blaeu, in Amsterdam,in Guilielmi Camdeni Britannia1617; the set of miniatures used in this atlas was later acquired
<> Northumberland. 1626 John Bill in the Abridgement of Camden's Brittania. Based on the
by George Humble, and the single county plates were used by him in his
pocket Speed atlas, Latin county names being changed to English.
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Saxton map; obverse about Cumberland.
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Holy Island. 1627. John Speed in The Theatre Of The Empire Of Great Britain
Lindisfarne PrintsNorthumberland. ca.1630 Pieter van den Keere
Northumbria. 1635 Gerard Mercator poss.engraved Pieter van den Keere in Atlas Minor
Northumbria. 1635 Gerard Mercator Atlas Minor, Jansson edition, engraved by Pieter van den Keere or Abraham Goos.
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Northumberland. 1635 Gerard Mercator Atlas Minor, engraving done for a Hondius edition of 1607; but the plates were later sold to an Englishman, M Sparke, who printed this plate from Historia Mundi or Mercator's Atlas in 1635. also, obverse, mainly concerning Cumberland.
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Comitatus Northumbria . 1648 J. Blaeu.
Northumbria(detail-NW borders) 1648 J. Blaeu
Holy Island and Farne. ca.1650 Joan Blaeu
Comitatus Northumbria. ca.1650 J.Blaeu
Northumberland. 1657 Thomas Jenner/Matthew Simons
From A Direction for the English Traviller , the earliest English road book with maps. 1657 (engraved 1643). It seems likely that these maps were hurriedly reworked from the first edition (by Matthew Simons, 1635, with smaller county maps) to meet the demands of the armies in the Civil War. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumbria, including the Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Lancaster and York. ca.1680 Nicolas Sanson
Northumberland. 1681(1745) Richard Blome Pub. Thomas Taylor in England Exactly
Described
Blome first used his maps in Speed's Maps Epitomised , 1681 & 1685;
changed some dedications and republished them in his Cosmography , 1693;
Thomas Taylor wound up with the plates and used them in England Exactly
Described 1715 and following.
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Holy Island Staples and Barwick. 1693 Captain Greenville Collins in The Great Britain Coasting Pilot Grace Galleries
Northumberland. 1693 Richard Blome in Speed's Maps Epitomised, or England Exactly Described. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumberland. 1695 Robert Morden. Two details from Camden's Britannia
Farne & Holy Isle in "The Smaller Islands of the British Ocean". ca.1701 Robert Morden in The New Description and State of England image courtesy of Brian Crawley
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Northumberland 1701 John Seller in Camden's Britannia Abridg'd Reduced from Speed and engraved by Francis Lamb.
Northumberland. 1710 Robert Morden, engraved by 1701, for The New Description and State of England; 1708, compass added by Moll for Fifty Six new and acurate maps of Great Britain, Ireland and Wales. image courtesy of Brian CrawleyNorthumberland. 1720 Emanuel Bowen and John Owen in Britannia Depicta The Old Map Shop
Northumberland. 1742 Thomas Badeslade. pub. W. H. Toms in Chorographica Britanniæ
(High resolution images of the 1st and the extensively revised 3rd states of this atlas)
Northumberland. 1744 J.Cowley for R.Dodsley's The Geography of Britain
Northumberland. 1745 Thomas Badeslade from the second edition of small county maps engraved by W. H.Toms, first issued in 1741-42. Entitled Chorographia Britanniae , it was said to have been produced for an intended royal tour by George II. Each map,engraved by W. H. Toms, has a column of historical and topical notes of great local interest. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumberland. 1748 Thomas Osborne, in Geographia Magni Britannii, unsuccessful competitor to the Badeslade & Toms pocket atlas
image courtesy of Brian Crawle yA Map of Northumberland 1749 Thomas Kitchin, in Kitchin & Jeffrey's Small English Atlas.
Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & MapsHexham-Newcastle area. 1749 Thomas Kitchin (detail from map above)
Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & MapsNorthumberland. ca. 1750 Thomas Kitchin, London Magazine, republished c.
1780, The Antiquities of England and Wales by Henry Boswell, published by Alexander Hogg
Northumberland. 1759 John Gibson in New and Accurate Maps of the Counties of England and Wales image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumberland. 1764 Andrew Dury in A Collection Of Plans Of The Principal Cities Of Great Britain And Ireland With Maps Of The Coast Of The Said Kingdoms.
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The Road from... York to Berwick. ca.1765 Gentleman's Magazine.
The Road from London to Carlisle. 1766 J. Gibson inThe London Magazine
(via Staffs.,Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland and Northumberland)Northumberland. 1769 John Rocque, originally published by Thomas Read between 1743 and 1746 under the title The English Traveller; revised by the surveyor John Rocque for
his Small English Atlas1752-64, final appearances 1769-70 in England Displayed(which publication this map is from)
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Northumberland. 1769 Thomas Bowen reengraved by Schenk. pub. Pieter Meijer, 1757-70, Algemeene Oefenschoole; image courtesy of Brian Crawley
An Actual Survey of the Great Post-Roads between London and Edinburgh 1776 Mostyyn John Armstrong,
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Cumberland. Northumberland. 1784 Thomas Kitchin. published by Alexander Hogg in Walpole's New and Complete British Traveller Classical Images
Northumberland. 1786. Thomas Kitchin. pub. Alex Hogg
Northumberland. 1784 William Dalton in The New and Complete British Traveller pub. Alexander Hogg. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
View of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1785 Alex Hogg
image courtesy of Brian CrawleyNorthumberland. 1787 John Cary in A New and Correct Atlas
Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. 1788 engr. R. Beilby Your Old Maps Online
Northumberland. 1772-87 John Seller in Antiquities of England and Wales by Francis Grose
Newcastle uppon Tyne. 1791 . Captain Greenville Collins in The Great Britain Coasting Pilot
Northumberland. 1793 Benjamin Baker from the Universal Magazine; a series of county maps appeared between 1791 and 1797. Indicates miles from London for the principal towns
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Northumberland. 1793 John Cary , in The New and Correct English Atlas
Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & MapsNewcastle area. 1793 John Cary(detail from map above) Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps
Northumberland 1796 George Bickham Jnr. from A Curious Antique Collection Of Bird's Eye Views.
The Laurie and Whittle edition of Bickham's unusual bird's eye view map of the county.
image courtesy of Brian CrawleyNorthumberland. 1797 Benjamin Baker in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure.
Northumberland. 1803 J. Aikin from England Delineated, printed for J. Johnson, St Paul's Churchyard, by T. Bensley, Holt Court, Fleet Street, 1803. Fifth edition.
image courtesy of Brian CrawleyNorthumberland. 1806 John Cary, in Cary's Traveller's Companion
A New Map of Northumberland. 1808 Charles Smith in Smith's New English Atlas.
Newcastle - city plan. 1808 G. Cole & C. Roper
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Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. 1808 George Cole, engr. John Roper in The British Atlas Your Old Maps Online
Northumberland. 1808 Bejamin Pitts Capper in A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom pub. R.Phillips
Northumberland 1809 John Cary
Northumberland. 1814 John Cary in Cary's Traveller's Companion The Old Map Shop
Northumberland. 1819 S. Neele
Northumberland. ca.1822 George A. Cooke in the Modern British Traveller ; and 1810, Topography of Great Britain. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumberland and Durham. 1824 Aristide Michel Perrot
From L'Angleterre ou Description Historique et Topographique du
Royaume uni de la Grande-Bretagne. A miniature map of the county with
highly decorative border engraved by Adrien Migneret.
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Northumberland. 1833 Sidney Hall in A New British Atlas rookesfineart
Northumberland 1833 John Archer. White on black wood engraved print, published by William Pinnock in The Guide to Knowledge
Northumberland. 1834 Fullarton, A New And Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales.
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Berwick. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton, engr. J.& C. Walker for Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary .
Morpeth. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton, engr. J.& C. Walker for Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary .
Newcastle. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton, engr. J.& C. Walker Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary .Gateshead. 1835 Robert Creighton, engr. J. & C. Walker for Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary
Northumberland. 1836 Thomas MouleNorthumberland. 1838 Thomas Moule engr. Schmollinger in The English Counties Delineated.
Your Old Maps Online
Northumberland. 1840 J.Archer in Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated
Northumberland. 1840 Robert Creighton, engr. J.&C.Walker in Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary
Northumberland. 1842 Robert Creighton, engr. J.&C.Walker in Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary Robert Ross & Co.
Northumberland. 1844 Robert Creighton, engr. J.&C.Walker in Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary Your Old Maps Online
Northumberland. 1845-50 in Reuben Ramble's Travels through the Counties of England. With Maps and Historical Vignettes, published by William Darton . Lithographic reproductions of the maps in Miller's New Miniature Atlas (1810) and intended for children. image courtesy of Brian Crawley
Northumberland 1846 Sidney Hall, in A Travelling County Atlas Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps
Northumberland. 1848 J. Archer for Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated .
Newcastle - town plan. 1850 A. & C. Black
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Northumberland. 1852 or 1854. Sydney Hall in A Travelling County Atlas.
This work was first published in 1842 and went through numerous updated editions until 1880.
This is one of the first editions to distinguish between completed railways (thick black line) and projected railways (thin hatched line), some of which were never completed.
RookesfineartRoute of the River Tyne (detail of N. Shields.) 1860 R.Fullarton for J. Bartholomew
Northumberland. 1863 John Dower in the Weekly Dispatch Atlas
Northumberland. ca.1866 Ordnance survey (detailed maps)
Newcastle and Gateshead. 1880 cartographer not known
Newcastle upon Tyne. -city plan. 1883 George W. Bacon in The New Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles
Northumberland.(North) 1885 Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales.
London Ancestor
Northumberland.(South) 1885 Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales.
London Ancestor
Jarrow to the mouth of the Tyne. 19th Century
Corbridge-Hexham area. 1889 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Plan of Newcastle. 1892 J. Bartholomew in Black's Handy Atlas
Embleton to Felton. 1895 detail from county map published by Cassell
Northumberland-Alnwick. 1898 J. Bartholomew. in the Royal Atlas of England and Wales
Art Source InternationalNewcastle. town-plan(and detail) 1900 K.Baedeker
Northumberland. 1904 Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain.
Northumberland. 1920 Players Cigarette Card
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