Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED The layout captures the geometric

The layout captures the geometric precision of early land surveys

Hartlepool is shown as an old fishing town on the coast

which received its market rights in 1332

this high-quality reproduction preserves the depth

parishes and settlements in far greater detail than the small-scale county maps of earlier decades

Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED The layout captures the geometricBy 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