In 1600 Norden was appointed surveyor of the crown woods and forests in Berkshire, Devon, and Surrey; in 1605 he obtained the surveyorship of the Duchy of Cornwall; and in 1607, after a careful survey, he composed his valuable "Description of the Honor of Windsor", with fine maps and plans in colour, dedicated to James I. In 1608 he was mainly occupied with the surveying of crown woods, especially in Surrey, Berkshire and Devon, and with the writing of his works on forest culture "Considerations touching... raising... of Coppices", and "Relation of... Proceedings upon... Commission concerning new forests", to which he added in 1613 his Observations concerning Crown Lands and Woods. In 1612 he was made surveyor of the royal castles in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall; in 1616 and 1617 he appears surveying the soke of Kirketon in Lindsey, as well as various manors and lands belonging to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I. His last works were a survey of Sheriff Hutton manor, Yorks, in 1624, and "England, an intended guide for English travellers", a series of tables to accompany Speed's county maps, executed in 1625, shortly before his death. Norden's maps of London and Westminster (in his "Speculum Britanniae" of 1593) are the best representations known of the English metropolis under the Tudors; his maps of Middlesex (also from the "Speculum Britanniae" of 1593), of Essex (1594), of Hertfordshire (1598) and of Cornwall (published in 1728; see above) are also notable. In the last of these the roads are indicated for the first time in English cartography. Norden also executed maps of Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex, for the fifth edition (1607) of Camden's "Britannia"; and maps of Middlesex, Essex, Sussex, Surrey and Cornwall for John Speed (1610). Several important cartographical works are lost. These include Norden's "Map ... of Battles fought in England from ... William the Conqueror to Elizabeth", in 16 sheets, formerly in the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford, of which elements are probably preserved in the "Invasions of England", an appendix to Speed's "Prospect of the most Famous Parts of the World" (1635); and his "View of London", in 8 sheets, made –6, and "View of London Bridge", published in 1624.