Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud big apple memorabilia thriving present

thriving present

Whether you have ancestral ties to the region or simply admire humanity’s perpetual search for new horizons

Wildlife thrived in these primal landscapes

Choose it for a Yorkshire-born relative marking a big birthday

and anyone who treasures the beauty of the Land of 10

Old Map of Gloucestershire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud big apple memorabilia thriving presentTwo very different landscapes meet on this map of Gloucestershire, engraved in 1665 by Joan Blaeu from his Amsterdam workshop for the English volume of his Atlas Novus. To the west, the map traces the broad sweep of the Severn estuary and the port of Bristol, already one of England's busiest trading towns and a base for transatlantic voyages; to the east, it climbs into the Cotswold hills, where the wool trade had built some of the county's wealthiest