Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED from urban mutts to rural

from urban mutts to rural herding dogs

this high-quality reproduction preserves the depth

Whether hung in a contemporary loft or a cozy library

Keen observers can trace old roads threading through plantations

Old Map of Lancashire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn Size:18x24 inch - UNFRAMED from urban mutts to ruralBy 1844 Lancashire had already remade itself twice over. The county that John Speed and Willem Blaeu had mapped in earlier centuries as a landscape of market towns and grazing land had, within a single lifetime, become the engine room of the Industrial Revolution, and Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary map captured that transformed county rather than its earlier incarnation. Lewis's dictionary entries for Lancashire read less like descriptions of