Museum opening hours: Monday to Saturdays 10am - 4pm

The Broadway, St Ives,

Cambridgeshire, PE27 5BX

MAP 1576 Christopher Sexton

MAP 1576 Christopher Sexton

Watermarked John Speed Map

Christopher Saxton is known as ‘The Father of English Cartography’.

He came to the attention of Thomas Seckford, Master of the Queen’s Requests and was introduced to Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth I.

With their patronage, he surveyed counties in England and Wales and created the first national atlas, one of the earliest of any country in Europe.

Can you find where you live? Place names could be different 450 years ago. Note: no roads marked!