Old Maps

Historic maps are becoming more and more popular nowadays,
as life gets more technological and people yearn for the simplicity of the past.
Although the products shown on this site are not antique maps, but reproduction maps,
they still provide an interesting and affordable link to times gone by.

Antique maps as we know them today go back to the "Age of Exploration" in the 15th Century,
but some of the earliest historic maps go back as far as the 25th Century BC,
a clay tablet from Ancient Babylonia, found near to Kirkuk in Iraq.
Silken antique maps have been discovered in Ganshu, China,
which date to the 4th Century BC.

The depth and detail gone into producing these historic maps is remarkable,
and this combined with the accompanying information provided on the John Speed Maps, for example,
makes them a useful study aid for local history or geography projects.

Our old maps have been bought by institutions such as museums,
and as props for television programmes and fashion shoots for reputable magazines,
which shows that these reporduction maps have a wide range of uses, both aesthetic and intellectual.

In addition to the reproduced antique maps we also stock original antique prints of Stately Homes and Castles.
Some of these prints are of Royal Residences such as Sandringham and Balmoral,
so will be of interest to collectors of Royal memorabilia, but others are now private residences,
or are public buildings, such as Benenden School in Cranbrook, Kent,
and Harlaxton Manor, the British base of the American University of Evansville.

The reproduction maps of important routes of the 17th Century available on this site are also very intriguing.
They cover all the major roads between important settlements that would have been taken centuries ago,
but what makes these old maps even more fascinating is that they show landmarks that are still in existence today,
such as quarries, bridge and trees - in fact antique maps like these have recently been used by the Woodland Trust
to locate, record and preserve some of Britain's oldest trees! Click to find out more

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