Maps of Cambridgeshire

Historic maps of Cambridgeshire

A 17th-century hand-coloured map of Cambridgeshire showing towns marked with small building icons and a scale of miles at the top.

Pieter Van Den Keere pub 1627 (RGL)

This map is known as the ‘miature Speed’ as it was sold by George Humber. It was published in Amsterdam in 1627. It predates most of the major drainage works.

An aged, hand-colored antique map of Cambridgeshire showing towns, rivers, and regional borders with Latin cartographic labels.

1637 map by William Kip after Saxton (RGL)

As with the map above, the major drainage dykes are still missing from this 1637 map.

Hand-colored 18th-century map of Cambridgeshire showing towns, drainage channels, a decorative cartouche, and a heraldic shield.

1685 Abe Swal and John Churchill Nicholas (RGL)

This 1685 map shows some of the major drainage dykes.

Hand-colored 18th-century map of Cambridgeshire, including a table of distances and descriptive text in a decorative border.

Owen and Bowen circa 1720 (RGL)

A hand-colored 1744 map of Cambridgeshire showing towns, rivers, roads, and surrounding counties with a decorative title.

I Cowley 1744 (RGL)

An eighteenth-century hand-colored map of Cambridgeshire showing towns, roads, and a decorative title cartouche at the bottom.

T Kitching from Astron. Observ. (RGL)

Cambridgeshire Pocket Map 1840

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