The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. The map in all probability dates dorsum to the 14th or 15th centuries.
There is some scrap over the historic catamenia of the Gough Map together with Linguistic Geographies has been attempting to respond the interrogation of who made the map & when past times examining the linguistic communication together with place-names used on the map. Their inquiry of the map's linguistic communication suggests that some of the map’s writing dates to only about the 1370s. The inquiry too establish testify that some of the place-names on the map convey been overwritten at afterward dates.
You tin examine the map together with the map's linguistic communication yourself inwards unopen exceptional on The Linguistic Geographies digital version of the map.
The Agas Map is a beautiful bird's middle thought map of London, outset printed inwards 1561. The map depicts a London which is withal a walled urban heart together with where the banks of the Thames are dotted amongst behaviour pits together with playhouses.
The Agas Map of Early Modern London is an interactive version of the map built using the OpenLayers platform. You tin pan together with zoom inwards on the map together with y'all tin explore locations on the map using the location categories menu. For illustration if y'all plough on the streets layer y'all tin click on roads on the map to acquire to a greater extent than close the route together with its etymology.
The Map of Early London website includes a comprehensive encyclopedia of London people, places together with topics featured inwards or of import to the map. The interactive locations on the map connect amongst the encyclopedia. If y'all pick out a location from the map or from the locations carte du jour y'all tin read a snippet from the encyclopedia together with click through to read the total encyclopedia entry.
Old Maps of Paris includes a expose of interesting historical maps of the French capital. There are 25 historical maps inwards total inwards the collection, including a map of the modest town of Paris circa 360 AD.
The oldest maps inwards the collection the 360 AD, 580 AD & 1180 AD maps of Paris were all truly created inwards the 18th century together with were based on the historical records of the time.
