A Grockle’s Eye View of Cornwall 10: The Map Room at St Michael’s Mount

Continuing my account of my visit to Cornwall. Today we look at the map room at St Michael’s Mount.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the latest post in my series about my visit to Cornwall. As part of my coverage of a day at St Michael’s Mount I am devoting a whole post to the map collection there.

A Collection of Antique Maps

For a cartophile such as me this section of the visit was particularly good fun…

Plymouth to Senan
In the days before googlemaps this is what a walking route looked like!

Exeter to TruroeWilliam Holes - Devon and Cornwall

Jan Janssons Cornwall
At one time the Dutch were trailblazers when it came to cartography.

two antique maps of CornwallJames Pigot's CornwallModelFour antique maps of CornwallNicolas Sansons West of England MapThe Isles of ScillyChristopher Saxton's CornwallMounts BayMap room mantelshelfMounts Bay IIThree views of cornish buildingsduoDuo IICottage PicSextetSextet II

Falmouth
Falmouth – one of the people who have noticed my posts about cornwall is thecornishbird, whose offerings include this about Falmouth: https://cornishbirdblog.com/2018/07/14/things-to-do-in-falmouth/

sextet IIIThree maps in one frameCornwall and Devonshiresix maps, two pictures

Author: Thomas

I am a founder member and currently secretary of the West Norfolk Autism Group and am autistic myself. I am a very keen photographer and almost every blog post I produce will feature some of my own photographs. I am an avidly keen cricket fan and often post about that sport.

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