Maps of Wales

The earliest surviving maps that show Wales are general maps of the British Isles or Europe. Often the detail of Wales is limited, only a few place-names are shown and the coastline is highly inaccurate.

Here we have a digitised selection of the National Library of Wales’s maps depicting Wales as a country.

• Prima Europe tabula (Map of the British Isles from Ptolemy's Geography, 1486)
  The oldest surviving geographical record of Wales
• Cambriae Typus
  Humphrey Llwyd's map, the earliest printed map specifically of Wales
• Saxton’s Proof Map of Wales
  Saxton's unique attempt to create a map of Wales, 1580
• Speed's map of Wales
  John Speed's map of Wales, 1610
• The map of the six counties of North Wales
  John Evans' map of North Wales, along with a list of subscribers, 1795
• A New and accurate map of South Wales
  Emanuel Bowen's map of South Wales, 1729

Related links

• The Early Mapping of Wales
• Wales, Wikipedia