Old Map of Sussex in 1829 by Greenwood & Co. - Worthing, Crawley, Brighton, Bognor, Eastbourne empire commerce hub or a collector drawn to

or a collector drawn to the artistry of vintage cartography

even though every major road and landmark is still carefully placed

The Water of Leith is picked out in blue as it winds across the map

alongside the descriptive text that made his Theatre such a landmark work of English cartography

Hang it in a refined parlor or a bustling workspace to spark dialogues about how trade

Old Map of Sussex in 1829 by Greenwood & Co. - Worthing, Crawley, Brighton, Bognor, Eastbourne empire commerce hub or a collector drawn toChristopher and John Greenwood were among the most ambitious English cartographers of the early 19th century, running a survey business that set out in the 1810s to map every English county at a genuinely large scale, well beyond what earlier Georgian publishers had attempted. Their county by county project, funded through local subscriptions, relied on fresh trigonometric surveys rather than simply updating older plates, and this Sussex sheet,