Atlases

The Historic Towns Trust has published six volumes of the British Historic Towns Atlas. Volumes I to III are now out of print and obtainable only as second-hand copies, but much of the contents is available to view on this website, by clicking on the volume title shown below.  The volume on Windsor and Eton (Vol IV) was published in March 2015, the volume on York (Vol V) in December 2015 and Volume VI (Winchester) in November 2017.

Like the volumes on Windsor and Eton, York and Winchester, the Oxford atlas in preparation will be published as high-quality board folder containing maps, illustrations, a text explaining the history of the town or city, and a gazetteer of the places named on the maps. All maps are printed in full colour (except, of course,  for reproduction - as illustrations - of maps which were originally printed only in black).

Because the maps are not bound into a volume, they are easy to set side-by-side for viewing purposes. So, the history and development of a town can be seen by comparing maps of the town at different dates.

From Volume VIII onwards, we will be reverting to a bound volume in order to reduce printing and production costs.  The volume will be flexibound allowing for the publication to be opened flat. The same high standards of production will be maintained, however.