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Resources consulted for Dorsetshire:

A Bibliography of County Maps - Large Scale County Maps of England. Tooley R.V.

The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland1579-1870 Chubb Thomas Dawson 1927

   A Bibliography of County Maps-Large Scale County Maps. Tooley R.V.

Dorset 1597 Christopher Saxton for his English Atlas (Image courtesy of The Menchanical Curator & Wikimedia)
Dorset 1605 Pieter Van Den Keere from Atlas of the British Isles (Chubb LX)

Dorset 1607 William Kip and John Norden after Christopher Saxton in Camden's Britannia ( Chubb p.22 XX)

Dorset 1610 John Speed in the The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (Chubb p.23 XXII)

Paynes Place (Mottcombe) 1620-1640 Henry Lily

Dorset Shire. 1626 John Bill in An Abridgment of Camden's Britannia. (Chubb p.51 LXI)
The Wells Estate in Motcombe 1630 Henry Lilly

Dorset. 1645 Joan Bleau in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ^{(Chubb LIX: RAS 228)}
^{(Image courtesy of The British Library-King's
Topographical Collection)}

Dorset 1646 Jan Jansson for his Atlas Novus

Dorsetshire 1662 John Speed in A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World (Roger Rea Edition)
(Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection Maps K.Top. )

Dorset 1665 Joan Blaeu in Le Grand Atlas: volume 5
(Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection Maps K.Top.)

Dorset 1676 Robert Morden Playing Card

Dorset Shire 1695 Robert Morden for Camden's Britannia   (Chubb p.93 CXIII )
(Image courtesy of Yale University Library

Dorsetshire 1701 John Seller for Camden's Britannia Abridged (Chubb CXX)
Also published 1703 for A History of England (Chubb CXXI) and 1695 as Anglia Contracta

Plan of the Isle of Portland 1710 in Hutchin's History of Dorset
(Image courtesy of British Library: King's Collection)

Dorsetshire 1724 Herman Moll for A New Description of England and Wales
(Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection. Maps K.Top.11.68.2 tab.)

Dorsetshire 1742 Thomas Badeslade in Chorographia Britanniae (Chubb p.133 CLX)

Dorsetshire. 1746 Samuel Simpson in the The Agreeable Historian or Complete English Traveller    (Chubb p.141 CLXXXIV)

Dorsetshire 1748 Thomas Bishop A Plan of Lands at Parkson belonging to Sr. Thomas Webb Barnt and Mr. Thomas Cload (Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection)

A Correct Map of Dorsetshire 1748 Thomas Osbourne in Geographia Magnae Britanniae

Poole 1750 Thomas Reekes A Plan of the County and Town of Poole (Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection. Maps K.Top.12.9.1. )

Dorset 1755 Emanuel Bowen (Image courtesy of Yale University Library)

Dorsetshire 1765 Isaac Taylor (Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection Maps K.Top.)

Dorset 1769 Thomas Kitchen in his Pocket Atlas (Chubb p.195 CCXXXV)

Dorset 1786 Thomas Kitchen in The Antiquities of England and Wales (Chubb p.210 CCLVII)

Dorsetshire 1788 John Aikin in England Deliniated (for the instruction of the young) (Chubb p.223 CCLXXXVI)

Dorsetshire 1790 John Cary in Cary's Travellers' Companion Chubb p.220 CCLXXIII)

Dorset 1793 John Cary in his New and Correct English Atlas
(Image courtesy of New York Library digital collections)

Dorset 1794 Isaac Taylor (Left Sheet)(Tooley p.76)
(Image courtesy of The British Library-King's Topographical Collection)

Dorset 1794 Isaac Taylor (Right Sheet)(Tooley p.76)
(Image courtesy of The British Library-King's Topographical Collection)

Dorset 1796 ( reduced from the Large Map of 2 Sheets) Isaac Taylor (Tooley p.76)
(Image courtesy of The British Library-King's Topographical Collection)
The County of Dorset 1796 reduced from the Large Map of 6 Sheets William Faden (Image courtesy of The British Library)

Plan of the Town of Shaftsbury 1799 William Upjohn
(Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection. Maps K.Top.12.9.2.)

Dorset 1800 John Aiken in England and Wales Delineated (Image courtesy of The Mechanical Curator & Wikimedia)

Dorsetshire 1803-1804 William Green in An Atlas of England - Sold by R. Buttars. (By this time the convention of North to the top of a map was universally accepted.Chubb notes that many of the maps in this Atlas were printed upside-down, but does not list which. He also does not name the engraver's name, which is presumed to be that of William Green, author of The Picture of England; a 2 volume descriptive atlas where the same maps have been correctly aligned, (Chubb p.238 CCCX & p.243 CCCXVIII) image courtesy of The British Library )King's Collection Maps K.Top.)

image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection Maps K.Top.

A new Map of the County of Dorset 1804 Charles Smith (Large File - May be slow to open)

Dorsetshire 1808 Benjamin Pitts Capper engr. Henry Cooper in A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom (Chubb p.245 CCCXXVII)

Dorsetshire 1809 George Cole and John Roper in their British Atlas
(Image courtesy of The British Library-King's Topographical Collection)

Dorset 1809 John Wallis

Dorsetshire 1816 Robert Rowe (Chubb p.262 CCCLIVa)

Dorset 1824 George Carrington Gray in Gray's New Book of Roads (Chubb p.281 CCCXCII)

Dorset 1829 C. & J.Greenwood (Chubb p.316 CCCLVIIIa)

Weymouth plan 1832 Robert Kearsley Dawson for Municipal Corporation Boundaries (England and Wales): for the 1832 Reform Bill (Chubb p.297 CCCCXXXIX)

Dorchester 1832 Robert Kearsley Dawson for The Boundaries Commission

Bridport 1832 Robert Kearsley Dawson
for Municipal Corporation Boundaries (England and Wales): for the 1832 Reform Bill (Chubb p.297 CCCCXXXIX)

Dorset. 1836 Sidney Hall for John Gorton's A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain. These maps were re-issued in A New British Atlas 1833 1834 1836, and also in A New County Atlas in 1847. (Chubb p.311 CCCCXLVI)

Weymouth 1835 Robert Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Dorset 1836 Thomas Moule

Shaftsbury. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Wareham. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary. (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Lyme Regis. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Poole. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Dorchester. ca. 1835 Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Bridport. ca. 1835  Robert Creighton: engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)

Dorsetshire 1836 Sidney Hall in John Gorton's A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain & Ireland

Dorsetshire 1842   James Pigot in A Pocket Topography and Gazetteer of England Chubb p. 321 CCCCLXII)

Dorset 1848 Robert Creighton for the Atlas to Lewis' Topographical Directory (Chubb p.322 CCCCLXIV)
Dorsetshire 1848 Joshua Archer for Dugdale's Curiosities of England and Wales

Plan of the Isle of Portland 1861 Hutchins History of Dorset

Poole 1861 John Hutchins in Hutchin's History of Dorset (Image courtesy of The Mechanical Curator & Wikimedia)

Bridport 1861 John Hutchins in Hutchin's History of Dorset (Image courtesy of The Mechanical Curator & Wikimedia)

Dorset 1885 Stanford's Parliamentary Atlas