Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print Dover stands on the coast

Dover stands on the coast as the closest English port to France

Berwick-upon-Tweed

or postcards capturing the lagoon’s shimmering vistas for a complementary effect

it challenges the mainstream cartographic norms of its time

As a key historical document

Old Map of Berkshire in 1611 by John Speed - Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead Patriotic Wall Print Dover stands on the coastFirst engraved in 1611 for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the earliest atlas to map England and Wales county by county, this sheet shows Berkshire as it was surveyed and drawn under Speed's direction and engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam. Like the other plates in Speed's atlas, it combines a topographical map with a decorative border carrying the county's coat of arms and a scale bar, all finished in the atlas's