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Four hundred years of maps and plans of Yorkshire, 1575 to 1975

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John Ackerley

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john@yorkshiremaps.co.uk 

         
              Notable dates
 
       the Yorkshireman
      Christopher Saxton
  publishes the first English
           atlas - 1579

       The first English road
      map book published -
        John Ogilby, 1675

        Thomas Jeffery's
     Yorkshire map - 1772

     The Ordnance Survey
 reaches Yorkshire - c1850

     Queen Victoria's reign
           1837 - 1901

          World War  I
           1914 - 1918

          World War II 
           1939 - 1945

           Useful books
 
    Maps of Yorkshire by
 
       Harold Whitaker

        Antique Maps of
 Yorkshire by John Rawnsley

    British County Maps by
          Yasha Beresiner

     Yorkshire Maps and
        Map-Makers by
         Arthur Raistrick

    Printed Maps and Plans
  of Leeds by the Thoresby
              Society
 

 

The East Riding by Joan Blaeu 1663

yorkshiremaps.co.uk specialises in all types of Yorkshire maps and plans of  not just county maps but also:

Yorkshire Town plans
Maps of the Yorkshire Ridings
Yorkshire Coastal charts
Yorkshire Canal maps
Yorkshire Railway maps
Yorkshire Ordnance Survey
Yorkshire Civil Works
Yorkshire Hunting maps
Books on Yorkshire maps
Yorkshire Road Maps
Yorkshire Rivers
Yorkshire Geological

 

Search the site by either Location or Theme by initially double clicking on Stock List and then entering the place name in Location, or alternatively selecting your Theme from the options provided. New items are added weekly. Good hunting,  but in desperation you can always 'phone me!

 

 

Hello, a welcome from myself, John Ackerley, to everybody interested in maps of Yorkshire. I’ve been a Yorkshire based collector of antique Yorkshire maps for nearly forty years and dealing in them for the past ten. As a collector it was always my intention to obtain the best available examples of maps of Yorkshire and this remains my dealing objective - to provide any customer with items that I would be proud to have in my own collection.

    Go to the News and Fairs page for points of interest.

To this end this website is entirely customer-friendly: I don’t include blurred, small and falsely coloured images of my stock, I only ask for cheques in payment after you’ve approved your purchase (except for first time buyers), every item is despatched to you on a sale or return basis, and items which are bulky, fragile or very valuable can be delivered by myself to your home for viewing.

I am happy to discuss any cartographic Yorkshire item via email john@yorkshiremaps.co.uk or over the phone (07793 811450).

I am also interested in buying Yorkshire maps as well as advising on and providing historical backgrounds to items owned by others.

With the exception of a small number of examples (and which are all clearly labelled as facsimiles or reproductions) all the Yorkshire cartographic items I sell are guaranteed originals and dated accordingly. I guarantee the quality of every original map as being as good as the best available allowing for age, rarity and type of use, but where significant defects are present these will be highlighted. Measurements are in inches, height first, and normally describe the printed area. Buyers not satisfied with posted items may return them for a full refund subject to the terms and conditions of ordering.  

Antique maps of Yorkshire have proved their attraction to all manner of people - family historians, archivists, interior decorators, businesses, researchers - but most of all to private individuals to whom a map can conjure up all sorts of memories of earlier homes, holidays, events and experiences, or provide an excellent gift for friends far and near.

Antique Yorkshire maps as well as  those of more recent times can be highly decorative and add colour and interest to the home as well as providing talking points for visitors, neighbours and friends alike. Yorkshire is blessed with all the features maps highlight so well - roads, rivers, hills, coastline, towns and villages, hamlets and cities, industry and agriculture, canals, railways, everything in fact from our past. Antique maps show how these have changed over time, cataloguing most of the social, industrial and economic trends over the past four hundred years. No other medium or British county pictures all these developments so graphically and completely - the perfect snapshots over time.


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