County maps

Following the publication of Cambriae Typus, Humphrey Llwyd’s map of Wales, in 1573, other cartographers began to produce more detailed mapping of Wales, some of which focused on individual counties and regions.

Here we have a selection of digitised maps depicting the counties of Wales from the late 16th Century onwards:

• Saxton’s County Maps of Wales
  Christopher Saxton's maps of the 13 Welsh Counties, 1579
• Penbrochiæ comitatus olim Demetiæ Regionis & Penbrochiae comitatus
  George Owen's map of the county of Pembrokeshire, 1602
• Speed’s county maps of Wales
  John Speed's individual maps of the 13 Welsh counties, 1610
• The Principality of Wales exactly described [...]
  Thomas Taylor's small county atlas of the Principality of Wales, 1718
• Greenwood's maps of Wales
• Other county maps
  View other county maps that have been digitised by The National Library of Wales.

Related links

• The National Library of Wales' Map Collection
• Historic counties of Wales, Wikipedia
• Local government in Wales, Wikipedia