Map Man - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Bartholomew's Cycling Map of England and Wales (1896-1903)
Nicholas Crane travels Britiain using historical maps. He uses Bartholomew's Cycling Map to set a route through the Lake District.
Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland (1583)
Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He uses Timothy Pont's 16th-century maps of Scotland to locate unidentified mountains.
MacKenzie's Chart of the Orkney Islands (1748)
Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. In the 1740s, schoolmaster Murdoch Mackenzie used revolutionary ways to map the sea.
John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12)
Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps. Can he navigate Berwick with Speed's roadless town plan?
John Cary's Inland Navigation (1796)
Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals.
William Mudge's Ordnance Survey, 1st Edition (1809)
Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original Ordnance Survey map.
Mrs P's A-Z (1936)
Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He follows the trail of Mrs Phyllis Pearsall, who created the London A-Z map almost singlehandedly in 1936.
Thomas Raven's Clandeboye Estate Maps (1625)
Nicholas Crane tries to locate a lost village using Thomas Raven's 1625 maps of the Clandeboye Estate in the north of Ireland.
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