Buckinghamshire 1610 Replica Map by the Old Map Company is a reproduction of the map created for the famous atlas of the period by the master map maker John Speede Esq. The Old Map Company has recreated the antique maps of British counties, European cities & World countries originally crafted by master map maker John Speede Esq. whose work had accuracy & quality not surpassed for centuries. Each map is treated & presented on specially crafted paper then h&-treated giving it texture & an aged appearance before being beautifully engraved & detailed. ...

Buckinghamshire in a series of cloth-backed reproductions from the Old Folding Maps of county maps published in late 19th century by Letts, Son & Co, with colouring & symbols providing a wealth of information, including towns where County Courts & Quarter Sessions are held, municipal boroughs, parliamentary county & borough boundaries with the number of returnable Members, etc. Letts county maps present each county with colouring indicating its parliamentary divisions & show a large number of smaller towns & villages. Railways are prominently highlighted; on roads “dangerous hills” are marked. Other information

Includes:: distance from London of main towns, market days, post towns, coast guard & life boat stations, etc. Each title also gives county statistics: population, area in acres, gross rental, inhabited houses, poor rate, & the number of paupers (!). Where appropriate, hachures are used to show the topography. The area outside the county boundary is not coloured but main towns plus road & rail connections are marked. Each map is backed onto cloth & presented folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link

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Buckinghamshire, an original antique map by G. Cole / J. Roper published in London, 1810-1843. Copperplate, coloured. Map size 17 x 23 cm, overall mounted size 32.5 x 38.5 cm. This detailed map of Buckinghamshire is from Dugdale's England & Wales Delineated. The map was drawn by G. Cole & engraved by John Roper for publication first in The Beauties Of England & Wales, issued in parts, from c.1804. Such was the success of the publication that the maps were re-used in other publications, as here. The maps show accurate geographical detail, including the turnpike, mail coach & principal roads, sites of Roman & other historical remains, as well as the seats of the nobility & the gentry, & market towns with their distances from London. The maps also show the division of the counties into hundreds or wapontakes. They are representative of the functional nineteenth-century approach to cartography, yet are not unattractive. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...

Buckinghamshire in a series of cloth-backed reproductions from the Old Folding Maps of county maps published in late 19th century by Letts, Son & Co, with colouring & symbols providing a wealth of information, including towns where County Courts & Quarter Sessions are held, municipal boroughs, parliamentary county & borough boundaries with the number of returnable Members, etc. Letts county maps present each county with colouring indicating its parliamentary divisions & show a large number of smaller towns & villages. Railways are prominently highlighted; on roads “dangerous hills” are marked. Other information

Includes:: distance from London of main towns, market days, post towns, coast guard & life boat stations, etc. Each title also gives county statistics: population, area in acres, gross rental, inhabited houses, poor rate, & the number of paupers (!). Where appropriate, hachures are used to show the topography. The area outside the county boundary is not coloured but main towns plus road & rail connections are marked. Each map is backed onto cloth & presented folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link

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Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes County Street Atlas at 1: 23, 810 (2.6” to 1 mile) in an A5, paperback edition from Philip’s, with coverage including Amersham, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, Berkhamsted, Bletchley, Buckingham, Burnham, Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter, Chesham, Chorleywood, Gerrards Cross, Great Missenden, Haddenham, High Wycombe, Marlow, Newport Pagnell, Princes Risborough, Slough, Tring, Uxbridge, Wendover, Windsor & Winslow. Mapping shows street names clearly, with major roads highlighted with bold colouring. The maps also indicate speed camera locations with speed limits. Also displayed are postcode boundaries, car parks, railway & bus stations, post offices, schools, colleges, hospitals, police & fire stations, places of worship, leisure centres, footpaths & bridleways, camping & caravan sites, golf courses, & many other places of interest. The atlas index lists street names with postcodes, plus schools, hospitals, railway stations, shopping centres & other facilities. Also included is an overview road map of the whole area for route planning, plus a postcode & administrative boundaries map. Current edition was published in 2010. ...

Buckley in 1909 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided. The main map covers the area from Victoria Terrace & Brunswick Road westward to Bryn-y-bal & part of Mynydd-isa, & northward to Buckley Mountain. Features include South Buckley Brick Works with mineral railway & tramway, High Street, The Square, Emmanuel church, Pren-Brigog, Wat`s Dike, Willow Colliery (disused), Ewloe Pottery, Belmount Brick Works, Ewloe Place, old coal shafts, chapels, etc. On the reverse is part of the adjacent sheet 14.09 extending coverage southward to include Padeswood & Buckley station & short stretch of LNWR Mold Branch, Bistre Farm, Nant-Mawr area, Garreg-lwyd, etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

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Buda Hillsin a series of contoured hiking & recreational maps from the Budapest based Cartographia, with hiking routes & other tourist information, including in many titles street plans, cycling trails, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals with relief shading & spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics to indicate different types of vegetation. An overprint highlights local hiking paths, with cycling routes also included in some titles. Symbols mark various places of interest, sport & recreational facilities, including campsites & other tourist accommodation, locations of petrol stations, etc. The maps show 1km lines of the country’s national grid. Map legends are in Hungarian & German only. On the reverse many titles include street plans of holiday centres & further information on the area, in Hungarian only. ...

Buda Hills Atlas from the Budapest-based Cartographia with detailed, contoured & GPS compatible mapping at 1:25, 000, plus an extensive, Hungarian language guide section providing descriptions of numerous places of interest. The guide has detailed topographic maps at 1:25, 000 with contours at 10m intervals enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring & graphics for different types of vegetation & land use, e.g. vineyards, orchards, meadows, woodlands, etc. An overprint highlights local and/or long-distance hiking trails, indicating their waymarking signage. Also marked are recommended cycling routes. Local roads indicate bus routes & stops, & railway lines are shown with stations. Symbols mark various facilities & places of interests including campsites, hostels & other tourist accommodation, restaurants & cafes, etc. The maps have margin ticks with latitude & longitude at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. Extensive text, illustrated with colour photos, is in Hungarian only – a challenge indeed! – but a lot of useful information, including telephone numbers for tourist offices, can be deciphered with help from a pocket dictionary. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Budapest, by Nicholas Clapton, is an engaging & affectionate musicians-eye view of a great European capital in the process of abandoning the trappings of its Communist past, while attempting to preserve its culture from a creeping, globalised blandness. Though bland is hardly a word that can be ascribed to Budapest or its inhabitants, the author is glad to find that certain old-fashioned attitudes of courtesy & overall decency are still deeply engrained in Hungarian society. Nicholas Clapton finds that, despite Hungary’s geographical closeness to us & the political rapprochements of the last two decades, there is still a true sense of otherness in this fascinating country. ...