Cambridgeshire Maps

12x18 cm

FROM THE "OWEN & BOWEN" POCKET ROAD BOOK BRITANNIA DEPICTA.

A MAP OF CAMBRIDGE SHIRE

Map set below the title cartouche for the road from London to Kings Lynn.

Engraved text descriptions alongside the county map and alongside and below the road map verso.

Engraved by Emanuel Bowen (1693?-1767) and published in the pocket road book Britannia Depicta by Thomas Bowles from 1720 to 1764. The county maps were based on Robert Morden's small series published in The New Description and State of England... from 1701. 

Road map from Hull to Flamborough Head verso.
Good example in neat later hand colour.

For full description of the road, go to category: Maps > British Isles > Road Maps > Owen & Bowen.