Charts

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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Charts, Pilots and Sailing Directions of the area. Ignoring Ptolemy, who gives little detail, the earliest Pilot claims to date from 1190. More detail emerges from the eighteenth century and there are many interesting features and bearings.

There is a good selection of charts and maps in the public domain and available online from Dutch, French and Spanish libraries. Scotland is the best source of Ordnance Survey. Some items, such as at the British Library are not Public Domain, so a link is given.

+Sources for Charts, Maps and Images

Ordnance Survey Maps - National Library of Scotland Good source of historical OS and other maps at Vision of Britain ...

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Maps of Land

Collected maps, some of high definition on England, Essex and Suffolk. The purpose is largely to assess the changes in ...

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Pilots, Atlases and Guides

A selection of old pilot guides ranging from the twelfth century to the twentieth. Where possible the section related to ...

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Sea Charts

These charts cover different periods, the focus is the Thames Estuary and East Coast rivers although an excursion to Dunwich ...

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  ‘Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson’..Robert Louis Stevenson.