Old Map of Suffolk in 1611 by John Speed - Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds historic England Wales map portraying a coastal lowland region

portraying a coastal lowland region where dikes

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reflecting the dramatic interplay of nature and human endeavor during a pivotal era

Old Map of Suffolk in 1611 by John Speed - Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds historic England Wales map portraying a coastal lowland regionThis is a beautiful and detailed map of Suffolk by John Speed from his 1611 atlas "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine." Suffolk is a county of Eastern England with ancient roots a land of medieval wool wealth, river valleys, and productive farmland, captured here with the precision that made Speed's county maps the standard of English cartography. Ipswich, Suffolk's county town and one of East Anglia's great medieval ports, sits prominently