FOUNDATIONS OF GEOGRAPHY.

ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS.
The First Maps of Britain
The art of map-making is centuries old.
The people of all ancient civilsations, Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, phoenicians, and romans are known to have made maps both of small regions and of their conception of the known world.
The earliest known maps of England is that drawn by Ptolemy , the famous roman geographer, probably in the second century of the Christian Era. For nearly a thousand years after the death of Ptolemy no noteworthy maps of Britain were made