Leigh's County Maps of England & Wales

Pocket-sized counties for early nineteenth-century travellers make up Leigh's County Maps of England & Wales, published ...

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Pocket-sized counties for early nineteenth-century travellers make up Leigh's County Maps of England & Wales, published in London by Samuel Leigh in 1820 and engraved by Sidney Hall. Each small sheet shows the county's towns, roads and rivers in clear outline and tightly arranged lettering, a road network from before the railways. English coverage runs from Cornwall and Devon to Cumberland, with Yorkshire divided into its ridings and the Isle of Wight treated separately, while the Welsh maps keep names such as Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire and Caernarvonshire. The whole set fitted in a volume far smaller than a folio atlas.

Pocket-sized counties for early nineteenth-century travellers make up Leigh's County Maps of England & Wales, published in London by Samuel Leigh in 1820 and engraved by Sidney Hall. Each small sheet shows the county's towns, roads and rivers in clear outline and tightly arranged lettering, a road network from before the railways. English coverage runs from Cornwall and Devon to Cumberland, with Yorkshire divided into its ridings and the Isle of Wight treated separately, while the Welsh maps keep names such as Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire and Caernarvonshire. The whole set fitted in a volume far smaller than a folio atlas.

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