Coning, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Coning (1913-1984), born in West Yorkshire, was a British pictorial cartographer and illustrator. He enlisted as an NCO in the Royal Corps of Signals, Halifax during World War Two for which service he was awarded the British Empire Medal. By the 1960s, he was working as an illustrator from Furley House Studios in Heptonstall, near Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. His earliest known map was "Haworth and the Brontë country" (1963). Later cartographic output included pictorial maps of the English Lake District, Exmoor, Halifax, Dartmoor and South Devon, the Duchy of Cornwall & Calderdale. He contributed illustrations and a map to "The Lorna Doone Story", "Cornwall: Travels with a Sketchbook", and "It Happened Here – Events Which Have ‘made news’ in Halifax and District from the 15th Century to the Present Day" (1955).