Saturday, 7 February 2026

The earliest surviving maps of Great Britain


Medievalists.net recently had a handsomely illustrated post on their weekly bulletin about the earliest surviving maps of Great Britain dating from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. Two, that created by Matthew Paris in the mid-thirteenth century and the Gough Map, which these days is dated to the early fifteenth century, are well known, but others are little known and are worthy of consideration. Perhaps surprisingly it does not include the Hereford Mappa Mundi which is usually date to the end of the thirteenth century or soon after. However that map has little information about the island. It is both discussed and illustrated on Wikipedia at Hereford_Mappa_Mundi

The illustrated article can be seen at Medieval Maps of Britain



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