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Description: Hodskinson's map of Suffolk, 1783 was an important map surveyed just before Parliamentary Enclosure. Andrew Macnair has redrawn the map digitally to make the map accessible and provide a further insight into Suffolk's rural landscape at the end of the 18th century.
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Joseph Hodskinson’s map of Suffolk , published in 1783, was one of a large series of English County maps produced in the second half of the 18th century by entrepreneurial surveyors, engravers and cartographic publishers.
Printed usually at a scale of one inch to the mile, these maps were often the first serious attempt to record English topographical detail, using improved surveying techniques and instruments. Many of the maps are historically important in that they were surveyed just before Parliamentary Enclosure irrevocably changed the rural landscape. Hodskinson’s Suffolk map is particularly unusual in that it was awarded a coveted gold medal by what came to be known as the Royal Society of Arts.
A section of the original Suffolk map showing the area around Snape
Faden's map of London 1788 · Digitally redrawn by Andrew Macnair, 2009 · Home