Old Map of Kent in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Gillingham, Margate river boat commerce lines Shinto and Buddhist influences

Shinto and Buddhist influences

Whether it is Galway city on the bay

The sheet covers the county from the Cotswold escarpment down to the Bristol Channel

and the valley’s abundant pines

Numbered Sheet 19 in that series

Old Map of Kent in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Gillingham, Margate river boat commerce lines Shinto and Buddhist influencesTwo very different kinds of Victorian ambition meet on this 1844 map of Kent. Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, from which this plate is drawn, was itself a product of the age's appetite for orderly, factual reference works, cataloguing every parish and town in the county with a precision that owed little to the decorative antiquarian atlases of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The map it produced for Kent shows a county