Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud big apple memorabilia Whether you have ancestral ties

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Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud big apple memorabilia Whether you have ancestral tiesTwo very different landscapes meet on this map of Gloucestershire, engraved in 1665 by Joan Blaeu from his Amsterdam workshop for the English volume of his Atlas Novus. To the west, the map traces the broad sweep of the Severn estuary and the port of Bristol, already one of England's busiest trading towns and a base for transatlantic voyages; to the east, it climbs into the Cotswold hills, where the wool trade had built some of the county's wealthiest