The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a ...

The map depicts Great Britain on its side as it was made before the convention of maps pointing north The findings of a 15-month project to study the earliest surviving recognisable map, external ...

But regardless of these errors, the Gough map represents a massive leap forward. As well as showing the geography, it gives a snapshot of England and Wales at the time and an idea of the ...

The Gough Map, thought to be Britain’s oldest, has been revealed in unprecedented detail thanks to cutting-edge 3D technology more commonly used in computer games and CGI. The ARCHiOx Project in ...

That's not the cartographer's only mistake. The Gough map shows a number of islands off Britain, but they are inaccurate. "Only a notional selection of islands is given, represented as rough ...

The earliest surviving road map of Great Britain which dates from about 1360 will be published in book form today. The Gough Map, also known as the Bodleian Map, measures 45 in by 22 in (115 by ...

Hanging in Oxford's Bodleian Library, the Gough Map - named after its 19th century ... "It really is the first map of its kind to show the geography of Britain - there's nothing before it ...

You may think this bizarre-looking map shows a far-off, exotic land. In fact, this is Britain. Known as The Gough Map, and named after Richard Gough, a rich gentleman who bought it in 1774 for ...

A pair of researchers, one with Swansea University, the other with Oxford University, has taken a new look at the Gough map and have found what might be the lost islands of ancient Welsh folklore.

Britain’s oldest route map, the 14th-century Gough Map. But for one hoping to get to the Middle Ages her mode of transport was incongruous: a very 21st-century convertible that her director ...

Furthermore, the use of vowels has given something else away about the Gough map's origin - the map-maker was from the south east of England. Elizabeth Solopova, a medievalist at the Bodleian ...