title: Cartography of York
text: # Cartography of York
  
  The Cartography of York is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of York. The following is a list of historic maps of York:
  
  * c.1610: John Speed's map
  * 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses
  * c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York
  * 1685: Jacob Richards' Survey of the City of York
  * 1694: Benedict Horsley's Iconography or Ground Plot of ye City of Yorke
  * 1722: John Cossins: A New and Exact Plan of the City of York
  * 1748: re-issue of Cossins' New and Exact Plan with five new architectural illustrations across the upper edge of the engraving. These include the new County Hospital and the Assembly Rooms
  * 1736: map in Francis Drake's Eboracum
  * 1784: William White's plan of York
  * various: Tithe maps
  * 1822: Alfred Smith's map, published in Edward Baines' History, Directory and Gazetteer of the county of York.
  * 1832: map by Robert Cooper
  * 1852: York Ordnance Survey
  * 1858: Nathaniel Whittock’s Birds Eye View
  * 1900: Bacon's map of the environs of York
  * 1909: Ordnance Survey map
  * 1937: Ordnance Survey map
  