making it an invaluable historical artifact
On the Westminster bank the sheet shows the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey close by Millbank
The detailed engravings capture the city’s urban design
Hang it where conversations flourish
In addition to its historical and artistic value
Old Map of Hertfordshire in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - St Albans, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Hitchin Size:A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED making it an invaluable historicalBy 1844, Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England had run through several editions, and the county map bound into each volume gave readers a visual companion to his parish by parish entries on population, churches, and local trade. Hertfordshire's map plots a county already reshaped by its nearness to London, its market towns strung along old coaching roads and its farmland increasingly given over to feeding the capital. St Albans anchors