Old Map of Norfolk in 1807 by John Cary - Norwich, Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Thetford, King's Lynn Jesmond Speed was England's foremost cartographer

Speed was England's foremost cartographer of county maps

bringing an authentic vintage feel

Each boundary marks negotiations

this reproduction captures the fine details of the original

This particular sheet covers the north-western reaches of the growing city

Old Map of Norfolk in 1807 by John Cary - Norwich, Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Thetford, King's Lynn Jesmond Speed was England's foremost cartographerJohn Cary earned a reputation as the finest engraver of county maps working in Georgian London, and his 1807 map of Norfolk shows exactly why. It was engraved for Cary's New English Atlas, a project he began around 1801 to update and surpass the county surveys of the previous century, and it was published on the first of March, 1807, from his premises on the Strand. Cary drew on early trigonometrical survey work then getting underway, together with