The second edition of a fine detailed large scale map by Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855). He was a surveyor and mapmaker from Yorkshire who settled in Wakefield by about 1815 before moving to London in 1818. His first large-scale survey was of Yorkshire published in 1817. The survey of Wiltshire is one of Greenwood’s earliest large-scale county productions issued in 1820, before his brother John joined in partnership. This is an example of the second state issued circa 1826 recording his brother’s involvement. It also includes for the first time insets of detached portions of the county. Greenwood was now in partnership with the publisher George Pringle. The early 1800s was a time of rapid change in the landscape with the burgeoning industrial revolution. Their surveys utilised the latest system of triangulation adopted by Colonel Mudge and his surveyors for the Ordnance Survey. Indeed, they were in open competition with them. The Greenwood maps were coloured as opposed to the more functional black and white Ordnance Surveys of the period.

It is produced at the scale of one inch to a mile. The map differentiates between woods and plantations, heaths and commons, different types of waterway, roads, and of course canals. A large north west view of Salisbury Cathedral occupies the lower left of the map. Chubb (1911) pp. 267-8 not recording this second state; Rodger (1972) 499; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).