and a thoughtful Christmas gift for family who have moved away from the region
On the Westminster bank the sheet shows the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey close by Millbank
or even a cozy cabin – adding a touch of explorer’s spirit to the décor
and works just as well as a Father's Day present for a dad who remembers the old tram routes
the atlas that established him as England's foremost county cartographer of the Jacobean age
Old Map of Hertfordshire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - St Albans, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Hitchin Size:A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED and a thoughtful Christmas giftBy 1844, Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England had run through several editions, and the county map bound into each volume gave readers a visual companion to his parish by parish entries on population, churches, and local trade. Hertfordshire's map plots a county already reshaped by its nearness to London, its market towns strung along old coaching roads and its farmland increasingly given over to feeding the capital. St Albans anchors