Restored Map of the East Riding of Yorkshire, c.1695

This is a restored Map of the East Riding of Yorkshire originally produced by Robert Morden, one of the first successful commercial map makers, in c1695 and published in Camden's Britannia, described at the time by Bishop Gibson as "much the fairest and most correct of any that have yet appeared". 
 
The map shows towns and villiages south of the Ouse as part of The West Riding, which was the case right up until 1974. It also uses the old administrative divisions of wapontake (corruption of wapentake), a Middle English term derived from the old Viking work wapontak. This originally, literally, meant the taking of weapons from an area but later is signified the clash of arms by the which the people assembled in a local court expressed assent. Regardless of etymology, in the case of georgraphy it is simply a subdivision of a Northern English county. 
 
The map was a single, low quality, seamless scan of a physical document. Paper wear and folds were dressed out and the missing information recreated from existing detail - missing or damaged lettering and landmark featured duplicated using existing examples. Also, because this is a restoration of a hand-drawn map, a significant amount of original pencil lines were removed along with false starts and unfinished lettering. Corrected errors like letter inserts, however, were left in. I removed the scale border for aesthetic reason and toned down the somewhat harsh colour-coding of the Ridings. 
 
You can purchase reproductions of the Morden map, however, all are scans of the original document and the above mentioned degradations and damage would be included which makes this the only "clean" version of the original map in existence to my knowledge.