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John Speed

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John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer and historian. [1]

180 relations: Addlestone, Agincourt House, Monmouth, Alfold, Amesbury, Angevin kings of England, Atlas Maior, Æthelwealh of Sussex, Barbican Estate, Barton Priory, Bedford Castle, Bicester, Bishop's Palace, Llandaff, Black Deep, Black Mill, Barham, Bodmin, Boldmere, Bridge Street, Reading, Broad Street, Reading, Burcombe, Cardiff Castle, Carrigogunnell, Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd, Cathay, Cerdic of Wessex, Chalton Windmill, Chillenden Windmill, Chippenham, Chobham, Christopher Saxton, Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth, City status in Ireland, Clausentum, Coat of arms of Sussex, Corsham, Counties of Ireland, County Borough of Carlisle, Creoda of Mercia, Cricklade, Delapré Abbey, Derby, Devizes, Dudley Castle, Edward Phillips, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, Eglwyseg, Eleanor Hibbert, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Eorpwald of East Anglia, Eric Bloodaxe, Essex, ..., Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England, Farndon, Cheshire, Fishamble Street, Flag of Surrey, Flag of Sussex, Flag of Warwickshire, Flint, Flintshire, Fore Street, London, Fornham St Martin, Gazetteer, George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, Gleadless, Glendower Street, Monmouth, Grub Street, Hadrian's Wall, Handforth, Hen Gwrt Moated Site, Herne Windmill, High Bridge, Reading, Highworth, Hingham, Norfolk, Historical Maps of Dublin, History of Belfast, Holy Brook, Holy Jesus Hospital, Hugh Broughton, Ida of Bernicia, Ipswich Blackfriars, Ipswich Greyfriars, Ipswich Whitefriars, James Speed, Jeffery John Mumford Speed, Jervaulx Abbey, Jodocus Hondius, John Barkham, John Norden, John Speed (disambiguation), John, King of England, Joshua Fry Speed, Keith Speed, Kempton Park, Surrey, Kingdom of Sussex, Lake Parime, Land sailing, Library of Sir Thomas Browne, Liphook, List of cartographers, List of English people, List of maps of Jamaica, List of monastic houses in Kent, List of monastic houses in Wiltshire, List of streets and squares in Dublin, List of tripoints of English counties, List of windmills in Cambridgeshire, List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, List of windmills in Kent, List of windmills in London, List of windmills in Surrey, Listed buildings in Ely, Cambridgeshire, Lledrod, Magpie Lane, Oxford, Map Man, Maps of ancient Israel, Maps of York, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Masonic Hall, Monmouth, Mayor of Monmouth, Melksham, Monk Street, Monmouth, Monmouth, Monmouth town walls and defences, Monnow Bridge, Nigel Nicolson, Nonsuch (album), Nonsuch Palace, North Hinksey, Northampton's tunnels, Oxford Castle, Peopleton, Petherton Park, Philemon Holland, Pieter van den Keere, Puddletown, Red Horse of Tysoe, Religious views of William Shakespeare, Rhondda, Richard Blome, Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), River Mole, River Redlake, Rolvenden Windmill, Rownham Ferry, Snitterfield, Southampton Castle, Southolt, Speed (name), St Giles-without-Cripplegate, St James House, Monmouth, St James Square, Monmouth, St James Street, Monmouth, St John's, Monmouth, St Mary's Church, Cardiff, St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Stanley, County Durham, Street names of the City of London, Streets and squares in Dublin, Sussex, Swyddffynnon, Symbols of Sussex, The Cross, Monmouth, The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg), The Loe, Thomas Plume, Tidworth, Timeline of Cardiff history, Timeline of Sussex history, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Transport in Ipswich, Trowbridge, Whitecross Street, Monmouth, Worcester city walls, Wuffa of East Anglia, Wye Bridge Ward, Monmouth, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, York Carmelite Friary, 1542, 1611 in literature, 1616, 1620s, 1629 in literature. Expand index (130 more) »

Addlestone

Addlestone is a town in Surrey, England, just within the M25 southwest of London.

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Agincourt House, Monmouth

Agincourt House, No.

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Alfold

Alfold is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England on the West Sussex border.

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Amesbury

Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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Angevin kings of England

The Angevins ("from Anjou") were a royal house that ruled England in the 12th and early 13th centuries; its monarchs were Henry II, Richard I and John.

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Atlas Maior

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3,000 pages of text.

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Æthelwealh of Sussex

Æthelwealh (''fl.'') (also written Aedilualch, Aethelwalch, Aþelwold, Æðelwold, Æþelwald, or Ethelwalch) was the first historical king of Sussex.

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Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate is a residential estate that was built during the 1960s and the 1980s within the City of London in Central London, in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and today densely populated by financial institutions.

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Barton Priory

Barton Priory (or Burton Oratory) was a priory on the Isle of Wight, England.

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Bedford Castle

Bedford Castle was a large medieval castle in Bedford, England.

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Bicester

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in England.

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Bishop's Palace, Llandaff

The Bishop's Palace, Llandaff is the ruined residence of the bishops of Llandaff.

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Black Deep

The Black Deep is a channel which forms the most important of the three main permanent shipping routes past the shoals in the North Sea and outer Thames Estuary, the others being the Barrow Deep and Princes Channel.

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Black Mill, Barham

Black Mill or Barham Downs Mill was a smock mill at Barham, Kent, England which was accidentally burnt down in 1970 while under restoration.

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Bodmin

Bodmin (Bosvena) is a civil parish and historic town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Boldmere

Boldmere is a residential area of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England.

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Bridge Street, Reading

Bridge Street, formerly known as Seven Bridges, is a historic street in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

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Broad Street, Reading

Broad Street is a main pedestrianised thoroughfare and the primary high street in the English town of Reading.

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Burcombe

Burcombe is a village and (by the name of Burcombe Without) a civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

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Carrigogunnell

Carrigogunnell Castle is a medieval Irish fortification near the village of Clarina, on the banks of the River Shannon in Co. Limerick.

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Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Cathay

Cathay is the Anglicized rendering of "Catai" and an alternative name for China in English.

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Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534.

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Chalton Windmill

Chalton Windmill is a Grade II listed tower mill on the top of Windmill Hill at Chalton, Hampshire, England, which has been converted to residential use.

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Chillenden Windmill

Chillenden windmill is a grade II* listed open-trestle post mill north of Chillenden, Kent, England.

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Chippenham

Chippenham is a large historic market town in northwest Wiltshire, England.

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Chobham

Chobham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England.

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

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Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth

The Church of St Thomas the Martyr at Overmonnow, Monmouth, south east Wales, is located beside the medieval Monnow Bridge across the River Monnow.

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City status in Ireland

In Ireland, the term ''city'' has somewhat differing meanings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Clausentum

Clausentum was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia.

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Coat of arms of Sussex

A heraldic shield (often erroneously referred to as a coat of arms) has been associated with the historic county of Sussex since the seventeenth century.

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Corsham

Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, which was formerly the main turnpike road from London to Bristol, southwest of Swindon, southeast of Bristol, northeast of Bath and southwest of Chippenham. Corsham is close to the county borders with Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later, the wool industry, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several notable historic buildings, such as the stately home of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and the Cold War, it became a major administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both above ground and in the old quarry tunnels. The early 21st century saw growth in Corsham's role in the film industry. The parish includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate.

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Counties of Ireland

The counties of Ireland (contaetha na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: coonties o Airlann) are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government.

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County Borough of Carlisle

Carlisle was, from 1835 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England, coterminate with Carlisle.

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Creoda of Mercia

Creoda (Cryda or Crida, 6th century) may have been the first king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, ruling toward the end of the 6th century.

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Cricklade

Cricklade is a small Cotswold town and civil parish on the River Thames in north Wiltshire, England, midway between Swindon and Cirencester.

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Delapré Abbey

Delapré Abbey, or more properly, the Abbey of St Mary de la Pré, the suffix meaning "in or of the Meadow", is a neo-classical mansion and outbuildings which incorporates remains of a former monastery in the meadows of the River Nene south south-east of Northampton.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Devizes

Devizes is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Wiltshire, England.

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Dudley Castle

Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England.

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Edward Phillips

Edward Phillips (August 1630 – c. 1696) was an English author.

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Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world.

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Eglwyseg

The Eglwyseg valley is an area to the north east of Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales; it is within the boundaries of Llantysilio Community.

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Eleanor Hibbert

Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.

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Ely, Cambridgeshire

Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, about north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London.

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Eorpwald of East Anglia

Eorpwald; also Erpenwald or Earpwald, (reigned from c. 624, assassinated c. 627 or 632), succeeded his father Rædwald as ruler of the independent Kingdom of the East Angles.

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Eric Bloodaxe

Eric Haraldsson (Old Norse: Eiríkr Haraldsson, Eirik Haraldsson; c. 885 – 954), nicknamed Eric Bloodaxe (Old Norse: Eiríkr blóðøx, Eirik Blodøks), was a 10th-century Norwegian ruler.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England

The exhumation and reburial of Richard III began with the discovery of the king's remains within the site of the former Greyfriars Friary Church in Leicester, England, in September 2012.

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Farndon, Cheshire

Farndon is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Fishamble Street

Fishamble Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland within the old city walls.

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Flag of Surrey

The flag of Surrey is the blue and gold chequered flag of the traditional county of Surrey and is derived from the coat of arms of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (heraldic blazon: Chequy Or and Azur).

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Flag of Sussex

The Flag of Sussex is the flag of the English county of Sussex.

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Flag of Warwickshire

The Warwickshire flag is the flag of the historic county of Warwickshire in England.

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Flint, Flintshire

Flint (Y Fflint) is a town in Flintshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Dee.

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Fore Street, London

Fore Street is a street in the City of London near the Barbican Centre.

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Fornham St Martin

Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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Gazetteer

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.

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George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes

George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (29 May 1555 – 27 March 1629), known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster.

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Gleadless

Gleadless is a suburb and parish Parish Map.

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Glendower Street, Monmouth

Glendower Street is a historic street in the town centre of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Grub Street

Until the early 19th century, Grub Street was a street close to London's impoverished Moorfields district that ran from Fore Streer east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate north to Chiswell Street.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Aelium), also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

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Handforth

Handforth is a suburban town between Wilmslow, Heald Green and Styal in Cheshire, England.

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Hen Gwrt Moated Site

Hen Gwrt, (English:Old Court), Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire is the site of a thirteenth century manor house and a sixteenth century hunting lodge.

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Herne Windmill

Herne Windmill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Herne, Kent, England, that was built in 1789.

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High Bridge, Reading

High Bridge, sometimes known as Duke Street Bridge, is a bridge across the River Kennet in the town centre of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

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Highworth

Highworth is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Swindon town centre.

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Hingham, Norfolk

Hingham is a market town and civil parish in the Forehoe district in the heart of rural Norfolk, in England.

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Historical Maps of Dublin

The following is a list of notable historical maps of Dublin City and County Dublin, Ireland.

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History of Belfast

The history of Belfast as a settlement goes back to the Iron Age, but its status as a major urban centre dates to the 18th century.

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Holy Brook

The Holy Brook is a channel of the River Kennet that flows through the English town of Reading.

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Holy Jesus Hospital

The Holy Jesus Hospital is a working office Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in the care of the National Trust.

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Hugh Broughton

Hugh Broughton (1549 – 4 August 1612) was an English scholar and theologian.

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Ida of Bernicia

Ida (died c. 559) is the first known king of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia, which he ruled from around 547 until his death in 559.

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Ipswich Blackfriars

Ipswich Blackfriars was a medieval religious house of Friars-preachers (Dominicans) in the town of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, founded in 1263 by King Henry III and dissolved in 1538.

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Ipswich Greyfriars

Ipswich Greyfriars was a mediaeval monastic house of Friars Minor (Franciscans) founded during the 13th century in Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Ipswich Whitefriars

Ipswich Whitefriars was the medieval religious house of Carmelite friars (under a prior) which formerly stood near the centre of the town of Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, UK.

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James Speed

James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and professor.

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Jeffery John Mumford Speed

Jeffery John Mumford Speed CBE FRSA FInstLM FRGS (born 3 October 1936) was Director of Fundraising and the Treasurer’s Department at Conservative Central Office (1995–96).

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Jervaulx Abbey

Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton near the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, dedicated to St. Mary in 1156.

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Jodocus Hondius

Jodocus Hondius (Latinized version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt) (14 October 1563 – 12 February 1612) was a Flemish engraver and cartographer.

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John Barkham

John Barkham, D.D. (1572?–1642) was an English clergyman, antiquary and historian.

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John Norden

John Norden (1625) was an English cartographer, chorographer and antiquary.

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John Speed (disambiguation)

John Speed (1542–1629) was an English cartographer and historian.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Joshua Fry Speed

Joshua Fry Speed (November 14, 1814 May 29, 1882) was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln from his days in Springfield, Illinois, where Speed was a partner in a general store.

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Keith Speed

Sir Herbert Keith Speed (11 March 1934 – 12 January 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament.

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Kempton Park, Surrey

Kempton Park formerly also a larger manor known as Kempton today refers to Kempton Park Racecourse in the Spelthorne district of Surrey which was in the Medieval period a private parkland, the remaining parkland of its royal manor.

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Kingdom of Sussex

The kingdom of the South Saxons (Suþseaxna rice), today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex, was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Lake Parime

Lake Parime or Lake Parima is a legendary lake located in South America.

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Land sailing

Land sailing, also known as 'sand yachting' or 'land yachting', is the act of moving across land in a wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail.

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Library of Sir Thomas Browne

The 1711 Sales Auction Catalogue of the Library of Sir Thomas Browne highlights the erudition of the physician, philosopher and encyclopedist, Sir Thomas Browne.

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Liphook

Liphook is a large village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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List of cartographers

Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

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List of English people

Listed below are English people of note and some notable individuals born in England.

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List of maps of Jamaica

A list of maps of Jamaica in chronological order.

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List of monastic houses in Kent

The following is a list of monastic houses in Kent, England.

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List of monastic houses in Wiltshire

The following is a list of monastic houses in Wiltshire, England.

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List of streets and squares in Dublin

This is a list of notable streets and squares in Dublin, Ireland.

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List of tripoints of English counties

This page contains a list of tripoints of English counties.

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List of windmills in Cambridgeshire

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire.

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List of windmills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

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List of windmills in Kent

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current Ceremonial county of Kent.

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List of windmills in London

A list of existing and former windmills whose sites fall within Greater London, England.

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List of windmills in Surrey

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Surrey.

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Listed buildings in Ely, Cambridgeshire

Ely, Cambridgeshire has 182 listed buildings.

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Lledrod

Lledrod is a village and parish in Ceredigion, Wales.

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Magpie Lane, Oxford

Magpie Lane is a narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England.

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Map Man

Map Man is a BBC documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2004 and repeated in 2013.

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Maps of ancient Israel

Maps of ancient Israel are maps and cartographic sketches of Israel and environs in antiquity.

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Maps of York

The following is a list of historic maps of York.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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Masonic Hall, Monmouth

The Masonic Hall is a grade II listed building on Monk Street in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Mayor of Monmouth

The Mayor of Monmouth is an elected position given to a town councillor in Monmouth in Wales.

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Melksham

Melksham is a town on the River Avon in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Trowbridge and south of Chippenham.

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Monk Street, Monmouth

Monk Street is an historic street in the town of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Monmouth

Monmouth (Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is the historic county town of Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Monmouth town walls and defences

The Monmouth town walls and defences comprise the defensive system of town walls and gates built in Monmouth, Wales between 1297 and the early part of the following century.

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Monnow Bridge

Monnow Bridge (Pont Trefynwy), in Monmouth, Wales, is the only remaining fortified river bridge in Great Britain with its gate tower standing on the bridge.

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Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician.

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Nonsuch (album)

Nonsuch (styled as NONSVCH.) is the 12th studio album by the English band XTC, released on 27 April 1992.

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Nonsuch Palace

Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace, built by Henry VIII in Surrey, England; it stood from 1538 to 1682–83.

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North Hinksey

North Hinksey is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, immediately west of Oxford.

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Northampton's tunnels

It is said by some that, underneath the streets of the town of Northampton in England, there remains a labyrinth of tunnels, along with many cellars and ancient crypts from the past.

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Oxford Castle

Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined Norman medieval castle on the western side of central Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.

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Peopleton

Peopleton is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.

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Petherton Park

Petherton Park (also known as North Petherton Park or Newton Park) was a Deer park around North Petherton within the English county of Somerset.

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Philemon Holland

Philemon Holland (1552 – 9 February 1637) was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator.

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Pieter van den Keere

Pieter van den Keere (Peter Kaerius 1571 – c. 1646) was a Dutch engraver, publisher and globe maker.

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Puddletown

Puddletown is a village and associated civil parish in the West Dorset district of Dorset, England.

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Red Horse of Tysoe

The Red Horse of Tysoe was a hill figure in South Warwickshire, England, cut into the red clay below the escarpment of Edgehill in the parish of Tysoe.

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Religious views of William Shakespeare

The religious views of William Shakespeare are the subject of an ongoing scholarly debate dating back more than 150 years.

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Rhondda

Rhondda, or the Rhondda Valley (Cwm Rhondda), is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda.

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Richard Blome

Richard Blome (1635-1705) was an engraver, cartographer, and publisher in the Kingdom of England.

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Richard Williams (alias Cromwell)

Sir Richard Williams (born by 1502 – 1544), also known as Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and a courtier in the court of Henry VIII.

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River Mole

The River Mole is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England.

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River Redlake

The Redlake is a minor river in southwest Shropshire, England.

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Rolvenden Windmill

Rolvenden Windill is a grade II* listed Post mill on the B2086 road west of Rolvenden in southeast England.

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Rownham Ferry

The Rownham Ferry was a boat service across the River Avon in Bristol, England.

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Snitterfield

Snitterfield is a village and civil parish in the Stratford on Avon district of Warwickshire, England, less than to the north of the A46 road, from Stratford upon Avon, from Warwick and from Coventry.

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Southampton Castle

Southampton Castle was located in the town of Southampton in Hampshire, England.

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Southolt

Southolt is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, about southeast of Eye, on the road between Bedingfield and Worlingworth.

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Speed (name)

Speed, as a name, may refer to.

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St Giles-without-Cripplegate

St Giles-without-Cripplegate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex.

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St James House, Monmouth

St James House is a grade II listed building in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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St James Square, Monmouth

St James Square is a historic square in the town centre of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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St James Street, Monmouth

St James Street is a historic street in the town centre of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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St John's, Monmouth

St John's is a grade II listed building in the town centre of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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St Mary's Church, Cardiff

St Mary's Church (Eglwys Fair) was an Anglican church in Cardiff, Wales, which stood at the south end of the current St. Mary's Street, from 1107 until 1620.

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St. John's Abbey, Colchester

St John's Abbey, also called Colchester Abbey,Ashdown-Hill, John (2009) Mediaeval Colchester's Lost Landmarks.

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Stanley, County Durham

Stanley is a former colliery town and civil parish in County Durham, England.

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Street names of the City of London

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the City of London.

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Streets and squares in Dublin

This article deals with the streets and squares in Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area of Ireland.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Swyddffynnon

Swyddffynnon is a village in Ceredigion, Wales, situated 3.75 miles (6 km) to the north of Tregaron, near the northern edge of Cors Caron (Tregaron Bog).

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Symbols of Sussex

Symbols of Sussex are flags, icons or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of Sussex or Sussex culture.

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The Cross, Monmouth

The Cross is situated in St Thomas' Square, Overmonnow, Monmouth, Wales, in the middle of a roundabout opposite the Church of St Thomas the Martyr and the western end of the Monnow Bridge.

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The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg)

The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) is a painting by Leonora Carrington.

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The Loe

The Loe (An Logh), also known as Loe Pool, is the largest natural freshwater lake in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Thomas Plume

Thomas Plume (1630 – 20 November 1704) was an English churchman and philanthropist, and founder of a library which still exists today.

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Tidworth

Tidworth is a garrison town and civil parish in south-east Wiltshire, England, located along the A338 road and close to the A303 road.

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Timeline of Cardiff history

The timeline of Cardiff history shows the significant events in the history of Cardiff which transformed it from a small Roman fort into the modern capital city of Wales.

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Timeline of Sussex history

This is a timeline of Sussex history.

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Tisbury, Wiltshire

Tisbury is a large village and civil parish approximately west of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.

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Transport in Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England.

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Trowbridge

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England on the River Biss in the west of the county, south east of Bath, Somerset, from which it is separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise to the west.

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Whitecross Street, Monmouth

Whitecross Street is a historic street in the town centre of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Worcester city walls

Worcester's city walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the city of Worcester in England between the 1st and 17th centuries.

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Wuffa of East Anglia

Wuffa (or Uffa, Ƿuffa) is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon genealogies as an early king of East Anglia.

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Wye Bridge Ward, Monmouth

Wye Bridge Ward was one of four wards in the town of Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a public house in Nottingham which claims to have been established in 1189, however there is no documentation to verify this date.

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York Carmelite Friary

York Carmelite Friary was a friary in York, North Yorkshire, England, that was established in about 1250, moved to its permanent site in 1295 and was surrendered in 1538.

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1542

Year 1542 (MDXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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1611 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1611.

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1616

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1620s

The 1620s decade ran from January 1, 1620, to December 31, 1629.

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1629 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1629.

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References

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