Resources consulted for Herefordshire: 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   Home

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 Herefordshire 1577 CHristopher Saxton (Chubb SH I

Herefordshire 1607 William Kip after Christopher Saxton (image courtesy of the British Library )

Herefordshire (01) 1605 Pieter van den Keere in his Atlas of the British Isles (Chubb p.15)
 
Herefordshire (02) 1605 Pieter van den Keere in his Atlas of the British Isles  (Chubb p.15)

Herefordshire 1610 John Speed in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (Image courtesy of The British Library

Herefordshire(03) 1617 Pieter van den Keere in his Atlas of the British Isles  (Chubb p.15) 
 
 Malvern Chase -  Land Owners:  1628 anon. (manuscript)

Herefordshire  1628 Robert Morden for Camden's Britannia  (Chubb p.65 LXX) 

Herefordia Comitatus 1645 Joan Blaeu
(Image courtesy of The British Library: King's Collection  Maps K.Top.15.42.

Herefordshire 1646 Jan Jansson for his Atlas Novus

Herefordshire 1645 William Hole after Christopher Saxton (Chubb p.9 XVIII)

Herefordshire 1646 Jan Jansson  Atlas Van de Hagen   (Chubb p.65 LXX) 

Herefordia comitatus: vernacule Hereford 1648 Jan Jansson in his Newer Atlas 
(Chubb p.65 LXX)   (Image courtesy of Harvard University Library)

Herefordshire 1659 Joan Blaeu Atlas Major Vol.5  ( Image courtesy of Yale University Library)

Herefordshire 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)

Herefordshire 1673 Richard Blome in Thomas Taylor's  England Exactly Discribed  (Chubb p.107  CXXXVI )

Herefordshire 1681  Richard Blome in Britannia

Herefordshire 1701 Robert Morden in his New Description and State of England

Herefordshire 1701-1703 John Seller for Camden's Britannia Abridged or: using the same plates;
The History of England or: also: Anglia  and Contracta. and finally (post mortem)
for Francis Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales 1777 -87 Chubb p.100 CXXII)

Herefordshire  1715 Peter Shenk and Gerard Valk in Atlas Van der Hagen after Jan Jasson: whose plates were purchased after his death.

Herefordshire 1720 Emanuel Bowen and John Owen in Britannia Depicta

Herefordshire 1722  Robert Morden for Camden's Britannia

Herefordshire 1724 Herman Moll in A New Description of England and Wales  (Chubb CLX: CLXI)

Herefordshire 1729 Dun-Bogg's Farm  L. Edward
 
Herefordshire   ca.1740 Wenceslas Hollar 

Herefordshire 1742 (State 01) Thomas Badeslade in Chorographia Britanniae
 (Chubb p.135 CLXXIIV)

Herefordshire 1742 (State 02) Thomas Badeslade in Chorographia Britanniae
(Chubb p.135 CLXXIIV)  Image courtesy of Biblioteque National France)

Herefordshire 1746 Samuel Simpson in The Agreeable Historian etc.  (Chubb p.141 XXXIV)

Herefordshire 1750 Emanuel Bowen for The Universal Magazine

Hereford Shire  1755 Emanuel Bowen in The Large English Atlas 
(Image courtesy of Yale University Library)

Plan of Hereford 1757 Isaac Taylor (Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection. Maps K.Top.15.93.1.11 tab.end. )   Very Large High Def. File takes several minutes to fully upload, but well worth the effort -be patient!

Hereford Shire  1755 Emanuel Bowen in The Large English Atlas 
(Image courtesy of Yale University Library)

Herefordshire 1760 Thomas Kitchin in The Universal Magazine
 ( Image courtesy of The British Library via Flickr and Wikimedia)

Herefordshire 1769  Thomas Read

Herefordshire 1780 John Seller reprinted by Francis Grose in his Antiquities of England and Wales Chubb p.100 CXXII)

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

Herefordshire 1786 Thomas Kitchin   in The Antiquities of England and Wales  (Chubb p.210 CCLVII)
( Image courtesy of McMaster University Library)

Hereford 1786  (sheet-1) Isaac Taylor (image courtesy of Biblioteca nacional de Espana

Hereford 1786 sheet-2) Isaac Taylor (image courtesy of Biblioteca nacional de Espana

Herefordshire 1790 John Cary in Cary's Travellers' Companion

Herefordshire 1793 John Cary in his New and Correct English Atlas (Chubb p.213  CCLX)
 (Image courtesy of New York Library Digital Collections

Herefordshire  1800 John Aiken in England and Wales Delineated   (Chubb p.223 CCLXXXVI))

Herefordshire 1803-1804  William Green in An Atlas of England - Sold by R. Buttars 1803 .Many of the maps in this Atlas were inverted, mirror imaged and /or flipped. This example has a North-at-top alignment but but the Orienting Arrow points South.

Author presumed to be William Green, author of The Picture of England (1804) a 2 volume descriptive atlas where the same maps have been correctly aligned, (Chubb p.238 CCCX & p.243 CCCXVIII)
images courtesy of The British Library King's Collection  Maps K.Top.)

Plan of the City of Hereford  1806 George Cole and John Roper intended to accompany the ill-fated Beauties of Britain but published in the Ropers' British Atlas p.266 CCCLXIII)

Herefordshire  1808 Pitts Capper in A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom  (Chubb p.245 CCCXXVII)

 Herefordshire 1809 John Roper in The British Atlas (Chubb p.250 CCCXXXIX)

Herefordshire 1817 Henry Price
 (Image courtesy of The British Library King's Collection Maps K.Top.15.93.2.

Herefordshire 1819  Ellis's New and Correct Atlas p.266 CCCLXIII)

Herefordshire 1822 Sidney Hall for Leigh's New Pocket Atlas  (Chubb p.273 CCCLXXIV)

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

Herefordshire 1828   in Smith's New English Atlas

Herefordshire  1834  C&J.Greenwood  
(Image courtesy of The British Library via Flickr and Wikimedia)
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Hereford 1835 Robert Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary  (Chubb p.322  CCCCLXIV) 

Leominster 1835 Robert Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary

Leominster 1835 (Detail) Robert Creighton for Lewis's Topographical Dictionary
 
Herefordshire 1836 Sydney Hall  in The New British Atlas  (Chubb p. 314 CCCCLI)

Herefordshire  1836  Reverend Samuel Clarke for The Travels of Reuben Ramble

Herefordshire 1842  Pigot and co. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia)

Herefordshire 1848 Robert Creighton  in Atlas to Lewis Topographical Directory (Chubb p.322  CCCCLXIV) 

City of Hereford  1858  Timothy Curley

Herefordshire. 1875  Edward Weller

Herefordshire 1885 Stanford's Parliamentary Directory