Christopher Saxton was born in Yorkshire around 1540. As a young man he studied map-making under the direction of a a local Vicar and cartographer, John Rudd. The White Yorkshire rose. ... Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. ...
In 1570 Saxton began a survey of the whole of England and Wales on the commission of Lord Burgley. This was a significant undertaking at the time, and yet by 1574 the first plates had been engraved and in 1578 the survey was complete. The maps produced set the standard for cartographers to follow, and base their own maps on, for hundreds of years to follow.
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Glasgow University article on the atlas of England & Wales
Maps of the Counties of England and Wales by ChristopherSaxton (1579)
Christopher Saxon was born in Yorkshire in the early 1540s, and seems during the 1500s to have worked and traveled with John Rudd, the map-making vicar of Dewsbury.
Saxton probably relied to some extent on earlier surveys, he may well have used some form of triangulation, and he perhaps combined these with the use of the plane table.
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