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Maps of Regency Places and Routes. Before 1700's, travel occurred by foot or by horseback. Most areas had poor roads or lacked roads. After 1750, roads improved in England. Privately owned roads known as turnpikes were started. Travelers paid a toll for passage, and the funds were used for the upkeep of the roads: clearing of downed trees ...
19th Century Maps. 1800. Map of Cambridge. Plan, [c. 1800] s.i. Neele sc. 14 x 18.5 cm. 1804. Map of Cambridge. Plan of town 1804 with references & inset of King’s Chapel, Library & Senate House. Engr. By J. Roper from drawing by G. Cole under the direction of J. Britton & E.W. Brayley ‘to accompany Beauties of England & Wales’. 22 x 17cm.
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Nov 23, 2023 · BBC News, Cambridgeshire. The hidden history of Cambridge stretching back to the Roman era has been revealed in a newly published map. It is part of a Europe-wide project to map as many historic ...
The Regency era of British history is commonly described as the years between c. 1795 and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820. King George III first suffered debilitating illness in the late 1780s, and relapsed into his final mental illness in 1810; by the Regency Act 1811, his eldest ...
Anglo-Saxon times. The area that is now Cambridgeshire was settled at about the 6th century by groups of Angles, who pushed their way up the Ouse and the Cam, and established themselves in the fen-district, where they became known as the Gyrwas, the districts corresponding to the modern counties of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire being distinguished as the lands of the North Gyrwas and the ...
4 days ago · The Middle Ages. Since Cambridge is one of the most ancient of European universities, it is not surprising that its origins are obscure. Much legendary lore has been accumulated on the subject, especially in the course of the disputes in the 16th and 17th centuries, as to the relative seniority of Cambridge and of Oxford.
A Walk Through The Regency Era. The historical and political Regency period was born out of Parliament’s Regency Act of 1811, which appointed King George III’s eldest son, the Prince of Wales, as Prince Regent. This allowed him to rule instead of his incapacitated father until 1820, when “Mad King George” died and he became King George ...
