Leicestershire

Leicestershire has been mapped in strikingly different styles, from John Speed’s county map with its inset plan of Leicester...

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Leicestershire has been mapped in strikingly different styles, from John Speed’s county map with its inset plan of Leicester to J. L. Carr’s anecdotal pictorial map of local history. Between them come Richard Blome and Robert Morden, John Cary’s regional sheets, the Ordnance Survey and Greenwood’s survey with its vignette of Belvoir Castle. The prints record castles, churches and country houses, among them Thomas Allom’s view of the ruins at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, while Charnwood Forest and the county’s market towns appear across both maps and views.

Leicestershire has been mapped in strikingly different styles, from John Speed’s county map with its inset plan of Leicester to J. L. Carr’s anecdotal pictorial map of local history. Between them come Richard Blome and Robert Morden, John Cary’s regional sheets, the Ordnance Survey and Greenwood’s survey with its vignette of Belvoir Castle. The prints record castles, churches and country houses, among them Thomas Allom’s view of the ruins at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, while Charnwood Forest and the county’s market towns appear across both maps and views.

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