Sorry, I can't view the map either.

Thanks LD, I will have a look at that as it's the sort of thing I'm searching for. Hopefully it goes back to the period in question..

Is this link any better it can be enlarged as can any other maps on it.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/br...0C7C1U00026000

The Rise of the County Map

Counties were the important administrative area in the sixteenth century and the first English printed maps were a County Series by Christopher Saxton, a Yorkshire estate surveyor born in 1542. There were 34 maps surveyed and engraved between 1573 and 1577 and published in a bound volume in 1579. Two government ministers Sir Thomas Seckford and William Cecil, Lord Burghley, commissioned the maps for state use. There is no standard symbols key and no lines of latitude or longitude; also no routes or roads are shown. In fact the main feature is his curious ‘sugar-loaf’ hills. However Elizabeth I seems to have been satisfied and, on July 20th 1577, granted Saxton a licence for the exclusive publication of the maps for a ten year period.

Three men, John Norden, William Smith and John Speed, worked on updating Saxton’s maps adding roads and a key.

John Speed’s Jacobean atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain was published in 1611 (First Edition) was based on Saxton’s surveys but improvements included the marking of Hundred boundaries and the inclusion of town plans.