Saxton – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:10:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Saxton – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Christopher Saxton Remembered in Leeds https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/10/christopher-saxton-remembered-in-leeds/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:00:17 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=5466 More]]>
Christopher Saxton, Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales, 1579. British Library.

The Yorkshire Society has erected a plaque in Tingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to commemorate the 16th-century cartographer Christopher Saxton, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports. Saxton produced the first county maps of England and Wales; they were collected in his 1579 Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales. A major name in the history of British cartography (see this page about Saxton from the University of Glasgow Library), Saxton was born in West Yorkshire—thus the local interest. [WMS]

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