Tag: Blaeu

Blaeu Map of Lanark from 1650

Blaeu Map

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Year: 1650

Blaeu was a Dutch map maker based in Amsterdam. He issued several maps of Lanarkshire in 1654 as part of his world atlas. This was popular throughout the known world and was…

Blaeu map of Lesmahagow from 1654

Blaeu map of Lesmahagow

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Year: 1654

This Blaeu Map of 1654 shows the area around Lesmahagow. Curiously Lesmahagow does not get a mention though Craighead does. An excavation of the 15th century Tower House was completed…

Pont's map of Lanarkshire, 1596

Auchengray and Tarbrax

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Year: 1596

The maps relate to Tarbrax and Auchengray and cover the period from 1596 when Timothy Pont’s Map was completed till Thomson’s map of Lanarkshire in 1832. The maps used in…