Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Dover stands on the coast as the closest English port to France

As a key historical document

By the 1840s Cornwall's economy was still dominated by its historic mining and fishing industries

Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print Berwick-upon-TweedFirst engraved in 1611 for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the earliest atlas to map England and Wales county by county, this sheet shows Berkshire as it was surveyed and drawn under Speed's direction and engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam. Like the other plates in Speed's atlas, it combines a topographical map with a decorative border carrying the county's coat of arms and a scale bar, all finished in the atlas's