Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print By this period

By this period

providing a clear sense of the city’s vibrant commercial and civic life during the post-Revolutionary period

dating from 1609 near the shores of Lough Gill

Berwick-upon-Tweed

it challenges the mainstream cartographic norms of its time

Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print By this periodFirst engraved in 1611 for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the earliest atlas to map England and Wales county by county, this sheet shows Berkshire as it was surveyed and drawn under Speed's direction and engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam. Like the other plates in Speed's atlas, it combines a topographical map with a decorative border carrying the county's coat of arms and a scale bar, all finished in the atlas's