Antique Map of Lincolnshire with Great Grimsby and the Wash, 1885

An original antique map of Lincolnshire, printed by lithography with original hand coloring, from the 1885 edition of The New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles. The title at the lower left reads "LINCOLNSHIRE.", with "REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY." and "Divided into 5 mile squares" beneath it. There is no credit line for Weller on this sheet.

The county fills a tall sheet from the River Humber, with Kingston upon Hull and Spurn Head on the Yorkshire shore, down to Stamford and the Cambridgeshire border. Great Grimsby lies at the mouth of the Humber, Gainsborough on the Trent, Lincoln near the middle, and Louth, Horncastle, Spilsby and Skegness toward the North Sea coast. In the south are Boston, Sleaford, Grantham, Spalding and Holbeach, with The Wash opening on the right and Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire named around the edge.

The northern and southern divisions are washed in rose and the middle division in yellow, and the boroughs of Great Grimsby, Lincoln, Boston, Grantham and Stamford are picked out in crimson. An explanation at the upper right gives borough and county boundaries, the division of the county and railways and stations, with the atlas note on station names below it: "The official names of Railway Stations are all engraved in a special character, thus, Clayton; except where indicated by the name of the town being in bold letters and identical with the name of the Station." The sheet is divided into five mile squares with letters and figures in the border. The sheet number 26 is printed in the margin.

The sheet comes from The New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, the atlas of county and town maps reduced from the Ordnance Survey by Edward Weller, F.R.G.S., and published in London by G. W. Bacon and Co. The date 1885 comes from the volume the sheets were taken from; the year is not printed on the sheet, and Bacon's name does not appear on it. Edward Weller (1819 to 1884) was a London map engraver and draftsman and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Vertical fold down the center from binding. Even age toning. Handling soiling along the left and right edges. A few small foxing spots in the margin. Slight wear at the bottom right and top left corners.

This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.