Old Map of Lancashire in 1611 by John Speed - Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Windermere Size:75x100 cm - UNFRAMED and a centuries-old seafaring tradition

and a centuries-old seafaring tradition

It makes an excellent gift for boaters

while Falmouth

showing Dungarvan

or living room – it brings a spirit of exploration and academic charm to any space

Old Map of Lancashire in 1611 by John Speed - Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Windermere Size:75x100 cm - UNFRAMED and a centuries-old seafaring traditionAn oddity of the historic county of Lancashire is that its boundary once reached north across Morecambe Bay to take in a detached block of the Lake District, and John Speed's 1611 map, engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius for his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, shows the county in exactly that older, larger form, complete with Windermere and the fells around it as part of what was then known as Lancashire over the Sands. That northern