Map Man - Season 1 Episode 7 Christopher Saxton’s Atlas of England & Wales (1577)
In just five summers, Saxton produced the first national atlas, providing Elizabethans with thirty-four beautifully engraved, hand-coloured county maps. But maps are created for all sorts of reasons and as he motorbikes across Norfolk (Saxton's first map), Nick discovers that Saxton's survey was as much about identifying possible political troublespots as rivers and windmills. Nick comes up with fascinating evidence that Norfolk was the heartland of Catholic conspiracy-making in the late 1500s. He also tries to solve the puzzle of Saxton's amazing omission from his Norfolk map: the Norfolk Broads.
First Air Date: Sep 16, 2004
Last Air date: Sep 05, 2005
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 16 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Popularity: 0.0971
Language: English
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