October 2019

The image of Beverley Minster included on Bowen’s county map of 1832 (see above) is interesting in that it shows the Minster as might be seen today from the Beverley end of Long Lane, a majestic building the product of a two-hundred year east to west building programme spanning the three main eras of Gothic […]

The picture above is of the top right-hand corner of Greenwood’s map (s.p.b.s) and forms the title credit. The bit of the map visible shows Flamborough Head, and immediately south the fact that Bridlington (Burlington) and Bridlington Quay were then (1832) still quite separate settlements. Despite some features on the map being indistinct two elements

Greenwood’s map is the last of those listed in the blog of 28th August last. Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) was a London publisher who compiled and published maps of most of the counties of England. Quoting from the notes on the back  of a print of this map, along with other East Yorkshire county maps published by the

Bowen’s mid 18th century county map incorporates a mine of information but mostly in the form of writing rather than by a lot of symbols and a comprehensive key. There is a small key ‘Explanation’ which distinguishes rectories from vicarages by a letter over a stylised church symbol, which identifies the site of ‘Antient Religious Houses’,

By taking an area of Bowen’s county map of the mid 18th century we can assess its value to students of area within the County. The above image (not the best) shows the area of the lower River Hull valley, Hull and ‘Hullshire’ and the south-eastern section of the Yorkshire Wolds. Incidentally county maps were produced to

Incidentally Bowen’s 18th century county map shows both keels and slopes amongst the single-masted vessels sailing the Estuary – but I struggle to remember which is which. The cluster of masts in the centre of the picture shows the ‘old harbour’, the western bank of the lower River Hull near its mouth, where the staithes,