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Frontispiece to Saxton's Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales

Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

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Christopher Saxton

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Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales. Saxton was probably born in...

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Saxton

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Saxton can refer to: Look up saxton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saxton, Kentucky, USA Saxton, Missouri, USA Saxton, Pennsylvania, USA Saxton Nuclear...

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Chorography

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county mapmakers Christopher Saxton and John Norden as "most skilfull (sic) Chorographers"; and Robert Plot in 1677 and Christopher Packe in 1743 both...

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Staffordshire

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Hand-drawn map of Stafford by Christopher Saxton from 1577...

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Hampshire

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Selborne was the home of Gilbert White. Journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens was born into a naval family in Portsmouth. Broadcasters Philippa...

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Westmorland

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Hand-drawn map of Westmorland and Cumberland by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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Gloucestershire

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in Budget". BBC News. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results...

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Wiltshire

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Hand-drawn map of Wiltshire, 1576, by Christopher Saxton...

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Nottinghamshire

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sandstone caves around Nottingham". Nottinghamshire was mapped first by Christopher Saxton in 1576; the first fully surveyed map of the county was by John Chapman...

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John Speed

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scholars of his generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries...

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Thomas Seckford

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Lancaster (to which he owed his early patronage). He was the patron of Christopher Saxton in the making of the first surveyed County Atlas of England and Wales...

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Rutland

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Hand-drawn map of Northampshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Rutland by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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Bedfordshire

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Hand-drawn map of Northampshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Rutland by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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Yorkshire

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the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2007. Gravett, Christopher (1999). Towton 1461: England's Bloodiest Battle. Osprey Publishing....

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Oxfordshire

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buildings are the Sheldonian Theatre, built 1664–68 to the design of Sir Christopher Wren, and the Radcliffe Camera, built 1737–49 to the design of James...

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Berkshire

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from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2018. Daniell, Christopher (2014), Atlas of Early Modern Britain, 1485–1715 Local government in...

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Buckinghamshire

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Hand-drawn map of Oxford, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire by Christopher Saxton from 1576....

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Prime meridian

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the Azores was still used for the same reason as late as 1594 by Christopher Saxton, although by then it had been shown that the zero magnetic declination...

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County Durham

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Hand-drawn map of Durham by Christopher Saxton in 1576...

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Merionethshire

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Hand-drawn map of Montgomery and Merioneth by Christopher Saxton from 1578...

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Martin Mere

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levels have risen and fallen. The original giant lake can be seen on Christopher Saxton's map from 1579 and stretched from Rufford in the east, to Churchtown...

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Flintshire

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Hand-drawn map of Denbigh and Flint by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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Denbighshire

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Hand-drawn map of Denbigh and Flint by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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River Stort

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of the town of Bishop's Stortford. The 16th-century cartographers Christopher Saxton and William Camden named it the Stort, assuming the town of Stortford...

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Cambridgeshire

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Hand-drawn map of Northampshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Rutland by Christopher Saxton from 1576...

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List of cartographers

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(Portugal 16th century), Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer Christopher Saxton (England, born c. 1540) John Speed (England, 1542–1629) Fernando Álvares...

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Cheshire

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Cheshire Community Council Publications Trust. ISBN 0-904532-46-1. Shores, Christopher; Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell (1990). Above the Trenches: A Complete...

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Dudley Castle

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Staffordshire rather than Worcestershire as shown by the maps of Christopher Saxton drawn in 1579 and John Speed in 1610. The borders were changed to...

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