Communities > Alnmouth > Plans About  Contact
 

Alnmouth - Plans

Speed's map of Northumberland (1610)

 

Search The Site

Photographs

Manuscripts

Ordnance Maps

Plans

Printed Material

Sound

Census Information

Speed's map of Northumberland - Click for bigger imageThis is a section of John Speed's Map of Northumberland published in 1610 showing the area around Alnmouth and Lesbury. As with other early maps, John Speed used illustrations to represent features. For example, a village is illustrated by a drawing of a church. The map is one of a series of fifty-four Maps of England & Wales published by John Speed between 1608 and 1610. The scale of the map is approximately one inch to four miles.