Old Map of Sussex in 1829 by Greenwood & Co. - Worthing, Crawley, Brighton, Bognor, Eastbourne empire commerce hub even though every major road

even though every major road and landmark is still carefully placed

The Water of Leith is picked out in blue as it winds across the map

reflecting Philadelphia’s march toward modernization

academic institutions

Old Map of Sussex in 1829 by Greenwood & Co. - Worthing, Crawley, Brighton, Bognor, Eastbourne empire commerce hub even though every major roadChristopher and John Greenwood were among the most ambitious English cartographers of the early 19th century, running a survey business that set out in the 1810s to map every English county at a genuinely large scale, well beyond what earlier Georgian publishers had attempted. Their county by county project, funded through local subscriptions, relied on fresh trigonometric surveys rather than simply updating older plates, and this Sussex sheet,