Just outside those walls were additional religious houses, some destined to be taken over by the city at the Reformation. It was a city dominated by its many religious houses and parish churches, but green fields still came up to its medieval walls. Published in May 2018, and updated in 2020, is the Map of Tudor London, detailing the streets and buildings of England's commercial capital about 1520 - just before the Reformation. The background map shows the city's warehouses, foundries and expanding pharmaceutical industry superimposed on the medieval core of the island created by making the world's first artificial commercial docks.
The map shows the city before bombing in the Second World War changed the appearance and layout of parts of the city centre. It became a prosperous fishing port and industrial city, as well as a major timber-importing centre.
STREET ATLAS 2018 SERIES
Hull was a royal foundation (the 'king's town upon the River Hull') and a heavily fortified settlement, with a series of town walls and a large citadel built in the late seventeenth century. It is larger in format than Winchester or Oxford, but at the standard scale of 1:2500. Kingston upon Hull was published in May 2017. It shows a city which had been the administrative centre of a large swathe of Anglo-Saxon England, declined into a country town which had open fields within its walls at the start of the 19th century, before Victorian expansion and modern prosperity. The following maps are published by the HTT and available to buyĪn Historical Map of Winchester was published in October 2016. The Historic Towns Trust doesn't sell its publications directly, but they are easy to obtain by order - please order them through your usual book retailer, quoting the ISBN. The maps are available to buy through local booksellers and other outlets in the cities featured, or by ordering through any bookshop or on-line book retailer. All maps are at a scale of 1:2500 (about 25 inches to the mile). The maps also carry illustrations in the form of engravings, watercolours or early photographs and 'topic boxes' relating points of interest specific to the town.Įach map is presented in a card cover (like an OS map), carrying an introduction to the map and a summary of the history of the featured town. They are published by the Historic Towns Trust in its Town & City Historical Maps series.Įach map shows a fascinating summary of the city or town's history, combining an interesting introductory text and a gazetteer giving brief details of the main features shown on the map, or street directory in the case of the Maps of Tudor London and medieval London. The Historic Towns Trust produces folded historical maps of towns and cities featured in its atlases, or meriting a map in their own right.
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