Antique maps of Bristol and surrounding areas with Sea Charts of the Bristol Channel

 

Plan of Bristol by John Rapkin for John Tallis

An extensive selection of antique maps detailing the City of Bristol from the 17th to the 19th century. 

Bristol Channel by Capt. Greenville Collins

The sea charts by Van Keulen illustrate the Bristol Channel which provided access to river Avon and the Port of Bristol, crucial to the city's development ans an international port. Greenville Collins extensive chart from the late 17th century published in the British Coasting Pilot. These were the first British sea charts and transformed Britain as a naval power. This example is a double page and shows extensive detail of the Avon estuary as well as the City of Bristol. Another navigational treasure is the 18th century chart of the Bristol Channel after Edmund Halley (of comet fame) by John Senex.

See all our antique maps of Bristol and the Bristol Channel here 

Map of the COUNTRY FIVE MILES ROUND BRISTOL Compiled Chiefly from the ORDNANCE SURVEY 1853 - Physically Coloured & NUMBERED WITH ALTITUDES TO ILLUSTRATE THE "FLORA BRISTOLIENSIS". By E. W. Swete