Now this is one of my favourite maps of where we live.
It comes from Greenwood’s "Atlas of the Counties of England, from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817-1833".
Charles Greenwood was born in 1786 in Gisburn in Yorkshire, trained to become a surveyor and set up a practice in Dewsbury in 1815.
In the following year he began a survey of the county of Yorkshire, which was published in 1817, and a year later moved to London, with the intention of producing maps of the remaining counties of England.
These were to be produced at a scale of one inch to the mile for England and three quarters of an inch to one mile for Wales.
His intention was produce a set of forty two maps to be sold for 135 guineas.
But with stiff competition from other private map makers he reproduced the maps at a reduced scale and these sold in parts from 1829-1834.
Location; Eltham, from Greenwood’s Atlas
Picture; Eltham, from Greenwood’s Atlas, 1829-1834, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
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Charles Greenwood was born in 1786 in Gisburn in Yorkshire, trained to become a surveyor and set up a practice in Dewsbury in 1815.
In the following year he began a survey of the county of Yorkshire, which was published in 1817, and a year later moved to London, with the intention of producing maps of the remaining counties of England.
These were to be produced at a scale of one inch to the mile for England and three quarters of an inch to one mile for Wales.
His intention was produce a set of forty two maps to be sold for 135 guineas.
But with stiff competition from other private map makers he reproduced the maps at a reduced scale and these sold in parts from 1829-1834.
Location; Eltham, from Greenwood’s Atlas
Picture; Eltham, from Greenwood’s Atlas, 1829-1834, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
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