17TH CENTURY MAP OF LONDON (W HOLLAR)Wencesclas Hollar, others
History in the Map-Making: One of the Finest Maps of England, Wales and Ireland Ever Created Dates from the Early 17th Century. Jonathan Potter Looks at the History of This Beautifully Detailed and Decorated Cartographic Gem. (Map of the Month)...
Historical World Map 17th Century. The Spread of Colonization, 1600-1700. Inset maps: Partition of Guiana and the West Indies 1600-1700, India, The Establishment of Dutch Power in the Malay Archipelago, 1602-1641, Guinea Coast
Clare Market (Map: D-7) - Meat market that dated from the 17th century. In Dickens' time it was described as a "crowded, noisy, and unsavoury place." The area was razed in the early 1900s to make way for Aldwych and Kingsway (Weinreb et al, 2008, p. 191)....
Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.
In common with most world maps of the later 17th century, California is depicted as an island and the northwest coast of North America is missing. This example is the first state of the map as the plate was acquired in the early 18th century by Louis Renard and then by Reinier & Josua...
Hertford Museum is a local museum in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. The museum first opened in 1903 and is located in a 17th-century town house with a Jacobean-style knot garden.Satellite Photo Map Directions Hotels
Pigatto, L., Zanini, V. (2001). Lunar Maps of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Tobias Mayer’s Map and its 19th-Century Edition. In: Barbieri, C., Rampazzi, F. (eds) Earth-Moon Relationships. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0800-6_31 ...
The centerpiece of the town’s World Heritage Site, the Durham Castle is one of the oldest, continuously occupied castles in England. Dating back to the 11th century, the castle is far removed from its days as a Norman fortress. While the Prince Bishops of Durham have also moved on. Today...
Homer is a small village in Shropshire, England, north of the town of Much Wenlock. The name first appears in the 14th century as "Honemor". Originally common land called Homer Wood, the settlement developed from squatters' cottages encroaching on the common during the 17th century.Harley...