The sheet covers the county from the Cotswold escarpment down to the Bristol Channel
Macclesfield had grown into one of England's principal silk-weaving towns by the 1840s
this piece brings an air of mystery and scientific intrigue to any space
this high-quality reproduction brings out every intricate detail
Numbered Sheet 19 in that series
Old Map of Kent in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Gillingham, Margate river boat commerce lines The sheet covers the countyTwo very different kinds of Victorian ambition meet on this 1844 map of Kent. Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, from which this plate is drawn, was itself a product of the age's appetite for orderly, factual reference works, cataloguing every parish and town in the county with a precision that owed little to the decorative antiquarian atlases of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The map it produced for Kent shows a county