Maps

English Markets and Trade Routes, 1192

Map of England showing potential overland and riverine trade routes, and markets in existence by 1192 rated for size based on the returns of the Lay Subsidy of 1334.

European Climate Zones

Europe's primary biogeographical zones, showing the northern limit of vine cultivation in late antiquity, the olive-growing regions, and areas of fertile loess soils. Sources:
1:10m Natural Earth II datasets from Natural Earth
EU Natura 2000 datasets (2016 edition)
Chorological data for the main European woody speciesfrom Figshare
Geodata of European loess domains from the Collaborative Research Centre 806
Donald Matthew, Atlas of Medieval Europe (Equinox, Oxford, 1983)

Laxton (1635)

A detailed survey of Laxton drawn by Mark Pierce in 1635 for Sir William Courten, a London merchant who purchesed the manor in 1625.

London

London c. 1300 AD.

Mappa Mundi

A modern facsimile of the Hereford Mappa Mundi of c. 1300 AD. Jerusalem lies at the centre of the map, with Asia at the top, Europe to the lower left and Africa to the lower right.

Nottingham

Very early work in progress - Nottingham town plan.

Nottinghamshire

This map, surveyed by John Chapman in 1774 and published in 1776, is one of the oldest detailed maps of the county. Several turnpike roads had already been built by this time, but there are a number of features that no longer exist, such as the meanders in the Trent at West Burton and Bole - a storm in 1784 caused the Trent to burst through the narrows, leaving the meanders as oxbow lakes which slowly dried. This map names the meanders as Burton Round and No Man's Friend. The map also shows several islands in the Trent. The original digitisation of this map is a 1.8Gb tiff scanned by McMaster University in Ontario and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. The original is on 42 sheets bound on cloth. I've modified it by trying (as best I can) to stitch the individual sheets together, and reduced the resolution to reach a file size allowed by this site, then added various medieval sites and boundaries. You can fint the original digitisation at McMasters' Digital Archive.