The English counties in the nineteenth century

Ornamental borders frame hand-coloured county outlines in these maps from The English counties in the nineteenth century, as...

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Ornamental borders frame hand-coloured county outlines in these maps from The English counties in the nineteenth century, associated with Thomas Moule and published in London by George Virtue. The sheets date from about 1840, when railways were entering a landscape still organised around county towns, estates and older roads, and the early lines can be followed within the county boundaries alongside the established settlements. English shires predominate, with separate coverage for places such as the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Thanet and Yorkshire's East Riding, and the decoration gives them an appearance quite different from a plain survey sheet.

Ornamental borders frame hand-coloured county outlines in these maps from The English counties in the nineteenth century, associated with Thomas Moule and published in London by George Virtue. The sheets date from about 1840, when railways were entering a landscape still organised around county towns, estates and older roads, and the early lines can be followed within the county boundaries alongside the established settlements. English shires predominate, with separate coverage for places such as the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Thanet and Yorkshire's East Riding, and the decoration gives them an appearance quite different from a plain survey sheet.

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