Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED This stunning 1925 nautical chart

This stunning 1925 nautical chart of St

and regal heraldry—bringing to life a realm perched on the edge of European knowledge

Keen observers can trace old roads threading through plantations

it is sure to spark conversation and admiration

The layout captures the geometric precision of early land surveys

Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED This stunning 1925 nautical chartBy 1844 Lancashire had already remade itself twice over. The county that John Speed and Willem Blaeu had mapped in earlier centuries as a landscape of market towns and grazing land had, within a single lifetime, become the engine room of the Industrial Revolution, and Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary map captured that transformed county rather than its earlier incarnation. Lewis's dictionary entries for Lancashire read less like descriptions of