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William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape: A Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic Map

by Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson

William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time.

The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD.

Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History in the School. 218p, full colour throughout (Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books 2010)

Review Quote

"This excellent commentary on that map, and on the technical and commercial business of county map-making in general, includes a DVD which reproduces Faden's map, allowing its close scrutiny and the printing of sections for private research... Such digitisation helps unlock county maps' secrets and encourages their interrogation by ecologists as well as archaeologists and historians."

Paul Stamper
British Archaeology (July/August 2011)

Table of Contents

1. The County Maps
2. Faden’s Map of Norfolk
3. The Map Redrawn
4. Commons, Greens and Heaths
5. Woods, Parks and Plantations
6. Fields, Farms and Fens
7. For Leisure and Edification
8. Traces of Antiquity
Conclusion

On DVD
Appendix 1. List of county maps considered by the Royal Society of Arts and those given a prize
Appendix 2. List of county maps that have been analysed in any detail
Appendix 3. List of William Faden’s county maps
Appendix 4. American maps by William Faden in the British Library and the Library of Congress, Washington
Appendix 5. List of errors found on Faden’s Map of Norfolk
Appendix 6. List and introduction to 159 maps, on DVD in digital form

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