Saxton's Atlas

18 Aug 2023

The atlas’s pages feature ‘Ledes’ and ‘Bradforthe’, the old names for Leeds and Bradford, and Saxton himself was believed to have been born in Dewsbury in the early 1540s before moving to south Leeds. Whilst most of the maps within the atlas were engraved on single copper plates, Saxton decided Yorkshire was important enough to require two, making the map of his home county twice the size of that of England and Wales.

Saxton's Atlas: The atlas’s pages feature ‘Ledes’ and ‘Bradforthe’, the old names for Leeds and Bradford, and Saxton himself was believed to have been born in Dewsbury in the early 1540s before moving to south Leeds.

Whilst most of the maps within the atlas were engraved on single copper plates, Saxton decided Yorkshire was important enough to require two, making the map of his home county twice the size of that of England and Wales.

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