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In the 1600s, the north of Ireland attracted Protestant colonists from England and Scotland, including James Hamilton, the 1st Viscount Clandeboye and Sir Hugh Montgomery. After a dispute over their land borders, Thomas Raven was commissioned by Hamilton to map his estates. Cran...
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Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. After getting lost in London using a map that hadn't been updated since 1918, Phyllis Pearsall decided to map the whole of London herself. She claimed to have set out at 5.00am each day and worked 18 hours a day, walking all 23,000 of London's stree... 29:00 Expired
The first edition of the Ordnance Survey was the product of the most complete mapping study of Britain since the Tudors. For the first time, there were maps linking county to county, based on a scale of one inch to the mile. The end of the 18th century was a bad time for Britain. The American colonies had just been lost. N... 29:00 Expired
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. 29:00 Expired
Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps that changed the face of Britain. 29:00 Expired
In the 1740s, at the time of the Jacobite rising, young Orkney schoolmaster Murdoch Mackenzie decided that the treacherous waters around Orkney should be properly mapped. Hundreds of ships had been lost in the Northern Passage, the stretch of water between the north coast of mainland Scotland and Orkney, and it was no long... 29:00 Expired
Can Nick find a missing mountain pass where the last wolves in Scotland roamed? Timothy Pont graduated from St Andrew's in 1583 and set off to survey Scotland. It was a major undertaking at a time when wolves still roamed the Highlands and it was difficult and dangerous to travel in rival clan territory. Over 18 years he m... 29:00 Expired
When cycling took off in Britain in a big way in the 1880s, everybody wanted to get on a bicycle and head for the country. And for all these keen bicyclers, Bartholomew made the very first cycling maps. With the best cycling routes and information for the Victorian cyclist, these maps were highly popular and distinctive. I...June 2013
Nicholas Crane tries to make sense of Thomas Raven's 1625 maps of Northern Ireland.
May 2013
Nicholas Crane reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original map of 1809.
April 2013
A look at the maps of John Cary which show the routes of all of Britain's canals.
Can Nick navigate Berwick with Speed's town plan without roads?
March 2013
Nicholas Crane tries to get to grips with Murdoch Mackenzie's methods.
Nicholas Crane looks at how Timothy Pont set off to survey Scotland in 1583.
Nicholas Crane uses Bartholomew's Cycling Map to find a route through the Lake District.
Can modern explorer, Nicholas Crane, decipher the symbols of the medieval Gough Map?
February 2013
Nicholas Crane uses an Ordnance Survey map to lead him safely through the Highlands.
Nicholas Crane explores Christopher Saxton's 1577 map of Norfolk.
Nicholas Crane examines William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales.