Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1611 by John Speed - Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Kingswood, Filton cultural confluence piece This map belongs to that

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The county Speed surveyed was already thick with castles built to guard the Welsh border: Chepstow

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Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1611 by John Speed - Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Kingswood, Filton cultural confluence piece This map belongs to thatCompiled for John Speed's 1611 Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first printed atlas devoted entirely to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Gloucestershire sheet stands out even within that project for its decoration: the upper left corner carries Speed's own plan of Gloucester itself, keyed to twenty six numbered churches, gates and streets, with an adjoining panel on the city's government and parish divisions. Speed built his