Alan Godfrey Maps

Good morning cartography crew!

How is you week shaping up?

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus/Happy St David's Day to all our Welsh friends!

We hope you had a lovely time today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️ (and we hope we got the Welsh language bit right too!)

Ruined stone structures along a narrow stream in a grassy valley of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Tickets for our Dales Archaeology Day are now on sale!

The Dales Archaeology Day 2026 will take place in Middleham Key Centre (Park Lane, Middleham, Leyburn, DL8 4RA) on the 21st March 2026, with a variety of talks, stalls and displays. More 👇

https://ow.ly/aHcx50YlN2f

Bath is a city whose history is a see-saw of popularity & decline, status, beauty & occasionally of mere survival.

Our maps’ introduction sparkles with Alan Godfrey’s usual magic & wit, and is accompanied by a street directory filled with names & local colour.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/som1405.htm

Bath is a city whose history is a see-saw of popularity & decline, status, beauty & occasionally of mere survival.

Our maps’ introduction sparkles with Alan Godfrey’s usual magic & wit, and is accompanied by a street directory filled with names & local colour.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/som1405.htm

Anyone read Lucy Worsley's 'Jane Austen at Home'?

It's a grand read, and a wonderful overview of England around the turn of the 19th century. It helped me consider today's map from a century later (Bath 1902) in more depth & with more historical context!

This isn't just a post about a football stadium.

One of the things I love about our maps is they remind us of our connections to the past.
Millions of our ancestors would have gone to a stadium like this, or a church, theatre, dockside, train station etc for work & fun - just like we do today.

#Coventry 1905
Our sample today shows the very earliest years of the storied Coventry City FC ground - Highfield Road - used 1899-2005! It had one of the biggest playing surfaces in England, and was the English league’s first all-seater stadium.
#CoventryCityFC
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/coventry.htm

A quick reminder of all our offers at the moment, including our half-price sale!

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Hal...

Richard Oliver again takes us on an informative tour of the area in his introduction for our new ‘#Exeter (South) 1904’ map.
Our sample is of Topsham Barracks, set up during the Napoleonic wars & still in use today (presumably with fresher recruits). #Devon
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/devon08010.htm

Very good question! 🤣

A few years after publication, legendary Knotty Ash resident and tickling stick owner Ken Dodd was born.

If you’re not from #Liverpool it’s likely that if you’ve heard of this area, that’s why, but there’s far more to the place; a great addition to our Liverpool range!
#Lancashire #Merseyside

They were a bit short-sighted then?

Included on our map sample today, neat rows of rectangles denote temporary housing originally for WWI US GI’s, who were waiting to be sent on to France.
After WWI these were used by local residents waiting for permanent homes to be built!

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/lancs10612.htm
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Knotty Ash & Old Swan 1925.

Today part of sprawling, characterful #Liverpool, this area was once quite rural, but it retains a sense of distinctiveness.
Always a transport & retail hub, it's had a unique and busy history, which our map introduction entertainingly discusses.
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#Liverpool & #Exeter maps incoming!

Plus, coming soon!
#London!
A Recent Releases Recap (ARRR pirate posting! 🏴‍☠️🦜)!
#D-Day!
#Bath!
#Football specials!

Our Exminster 1904 map also comes with an extract from the contemporary Kelly's Directory, a useful resource for Genealogists and historians alike, when read in conjunction with our specially commissioned map introduction...

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/devon09203.htm

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Exminster 1904
#Devon
Today’s new map sample focusses on the imposing County Lunatic Asylum.
Richard Oliver’s introductory notes give a full & entertaining history of the institution and local area, tying the map to the wider world via overviews of transport links & local government machinations!

This is the first of four fresh new maps this week!

We're heading to Exeter and Merseyside in the next few days, accompanied by high quality reprinted maps, in depth historical introductions by expert authors & researchers and more!

A fine example of the stunning wealth the Welsh land held, ‘Pontardawe 1913’ is a grand reminder of the important work done by generations of Cymry in villages & valleys, feeding the huge ports of Swansea and Cardiff in the 19th & 20th centuries.

#Glamorgan
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/glam0812.htm

ITS NEW MAPS WEEK!!!

#Torquay 1904.
#Devon
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/devon11614.htm
Today’s map is full & fascinating, Richard Oliver’s introduction is an excellent history; mentioning the influence of the Palk family in the development of the town, the port visit of Napoleon & a useful precis of what can be seen today.

#Torquay 1904.
#Devon
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/devon11614.htm
Today’s map is full & fascinating, Richard Oliver’s introduction is an excellent history; mentioning the influence of the Palk family in the development of the town, the port visit of Napoleon & a useful precis of what can be seen today.

Holyhead 1923.
A port town dependent on political travel between England & Ireland, almost at the moment this map was released the Irish Free State was created & the town’s port became almost redundant. The town faced a long fight for survival. #Anglesey
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ang1102.htm

Holyhead 1923.
A port town dependent on political travel between England & Ireland, almost at the moment this map was released the Irish Free State was created & the town’s port became almost redundant. The town faced a long fight for survival. #Anglesey
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ang1102.htm

Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

Walter Geikie, Four Small Views of Coquet Islands and Holyhead Castle,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1131845

Presented by Tate Gallery Publications 1979

William Daniell, The Harbour Light-house, Holyhead, 1814
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125069

Dun Laoghaire & Monkstown 1908.
#CountyDublin
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/dub2306.htm
Also on our sample, we see the portside, where packet steamers and assorted ships would arrive from Holyhead, often linking up with the railway station.