Old Map of Surrey in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Guildford, Croydon, Kingston, Richmond andean urban heritage Doncaster and Pontefract are marked

Doncaster and Pontefract are marked further east

With its fine detailing and rich historical significance

you embrace a people who matched raw

In the background

Old Map of Surrey in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Guildford, Croydon, Kingston, Richmond andean urban heritage Doncaster and Pontefract are markedThis vivid county map of Surrey was engraved and published in 1665 by Joan Blaeu, the celebrated Amsterdam mapmaker whose workshop produced some of the finest atlases of the seventeenth century. It appeared in his monumental Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great cartographic achievements of the Dutch Golden Age, and captures Surrey as it stood in the middle of the seventeenth century, decades before the county's rural parishes