The nation’s old maps, one place at a time

Find your place in the past.

Find your town, village, island or hill on the old surveys, and have it printed, set under a cup of tea or hung on the wall.

Often looked for:LiverpoolNew BrightonHoylakeChorlton-cum-HardyIsle of Skye
Liverpool Historic Map Wall Art
Liverpool & Birkenhead, Bartholomew’s half-inch map Bartholomew Half-inch

Maps within an afternoon of Liverpool

Four ways in

However you remember a place

I. By place Every town, village and island we hold, each with a page of its own, and the ones on their way. Liverpool · Hoylake · New Brighton II. By map The great surveys, from Blaeu to the Seventh Series, and how to tell them apart. Bartholomew · Six-inch · Roy III. By object Prints, coasters, mugs and calendars, all printed to order from the same sheets. Prints · Coasters · Calendars IV. By gift Where they grew up, where you met, the first house: three questions and we lay out the maps. The map finder
Through the editions

The lettering tells you the year before the date does.

Each survey was lettered in the fashion of its day. We set every map’s name in the type of its own time, so a Blaeu reads like 1654 and a Bartholomew like 1904.
Bartholomew Half-inch1897–1907
Liverpool & Birkenhead

Edinburgh’s colour maps for cyclists and motorists: green lowlands rising through buff to brown hills, roads graded first class to indifferent, dangerous hills marked with a red arrow.

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Lately chosen

Every map in the shop
Liverpool historic map print, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1904
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1904 Liverpool Wall art from £16.95
Manchester historic map mug, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1904
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1904 Manchester & Salford Mug £17.95
York historic map coaster, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1903
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1903 York Coaster £11.95
Manchester historic map print, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1904
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1904 Manchester Wall art from £16.95
York historic map mug, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1903
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1903 York Mug £17.95
Edinburgh historic map coaster, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1903
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1903 Edinburgh Coaster £11.95
York historic map print, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1903
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1903 York Wall art from £16.95
Edinburgh historic map mug, Bartholomew Half-Inch, 1903
BARTHOLOMEW HALF-INCH · 1903 Edinburgh Mug £17.95
The park specimen from Plate IV, Conventional Signs and Writing, 1923
Reading the map

How to read a park, a bench mark and a parish line.

The Survey drew every park the same way: a fine stipple inside its pale, single trees, the house in plan. Plate IV, “Conventional Signs and Writing”, is the key to it all, and the source of the twelve lessons in our 2027 calendar.

A gift for someone who left a place behind

Where did they grow up?

Answer what you know. Anything the old surveys never drew is ruled out as you go, and we show what is in the shop now.
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The thing

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