By Sydney Burgess The Historic Towns Trust map of Canterbury offers a view of the centuries of societies that have occupied Canterbury. One of the oldest of these is Romano-Britain, in which, after the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, the Roman town of Durovernum Cantiacorum was established. It once boasted baths, temples, theatres and townhouses, but today, very little of this survives above ground. However, using the multi-period view HTT map, it becomes evident that rat

By Giles Darkes — HTT Cartographer Most of the maps that we produce use a digitised version of an OS map from somewhere between 1880 and 1930 as the base map, and we then add the historical information to it. The OS map is converted into a vector digitised form, and that means capturing the main features on the map and converting them into points, lines and areas. Once they’ve been converted, it means that we can apply a cartographic style to them, and then add the historica

By Sydney Burgess Upon closer look of the Historic Towns Trust map of Coventry , delicate blue lines emerge among street and property boundaries (Figure 1). These faint traces of the River Sherbourne once powered Coventry’s industry, defined its neighbourhoods and structured daily lives. Figure 1: Extract from the Historic Towns Trust map of Coventry — includes Mill Pond and Dam and Corn Mill along the River Sherbourne. This river, which has its source at Corley Moor, moves u

Amy Pattison delivers her walking tour of Bradford's pubs and inns To celebrate the publication of our Historical Map of Bradford: Wool...

Dr Tom Pickles leads the workshop Following the publication of our An Historical Map of Chester: Mercantile Centre & Cathedral City we...

Prof Sarah Rees Jones, show guests the Bradford Map at the Launch (photo credit. Bradford Literature Festival) To celebrate the...

An Historical Map of Chester, now available in our online shop To celebrate the publication of our An Historical Map of Chester:...

Our placement student, Amy Pattison, leading a walking tour on the history of Bradford Are you interested in volunteering for a small but...

HTT announces the imminent publication of an historical map of Ipswich, which will be available from our online shop and in all good bookshops from 23 April.

The Historic Towns Trust has published Volume 4 of 'Talk of the Town', the general newsletter of the Historic Towns Trust, creators and...

The Historic Towns Trust’s new map of Ripon , created in partnership with Ripon Together, was published in October 2024 and launched in...

September is the month when heritage is open! It’s the month when cultural destinations put in extra effort to make heritage more...

One of HTT’s principal aims is to encourage the better understanding of urban form and history through comparative study, and our...

We are delighted to announce the publication of An Historical Map of Bath, Medieval, Stuart and Georgian City, produced in association...

Professor Helen Fulton of the University of Bristol, who led on the Trust's maps of Medieval Bristol (2020) and of Swansea and Mumbles ...

Ipswich, port and county town

The Historic Towns Trust aims to maps towns and cities across Great Britain, so we are very pleased that a project to map Chester, in the...

The Historic Towns Trust has published Volume 3 of 'Talk of the Town', the general newsletter of the Historic Towns Trust, creators and...

Next year in 2025, Bradford will be UK City of Culture...

The Historic Towns Trust historical map of Perth was launched on 11 May 2024