Old Map of Anglesey, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Beaumaris, Holyhead, Bangor actor gift a competitive rider

a competitive rider

would remain part of the county for more than three and a half centuries before local government reforms transferred it to Cumbria in 1974

one of the county maps from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine

this poster remains an enduring symbol of military dedication and service

Old Map of Anglesey, Wales in 1611 by John Speed - Beaumaris, Holyhead, Bangor actor gift a competitive riderThis reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Anglesey, one of the county maps from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first comprehensive county by county survey of England and Wales. Speed drew on the latest surveying knowledge of the early Jacobean period, and the plate was engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, whose fine copperplate work gives the map its characteristic crisp lettering and decorative