Image source, Leeds Central Library. Image caption ... Saxton decided Yorkshire was important enough to require two, making the map of his home county twice the size of that of England and ...

The book itself is so rare and cherished by experts, it has been compared to a map-collector’s ... Philip Wilde, library assistant at Leeds Central Library has been researching the atlas.

Crowds gathered outside Leeds Central Library to welcome His Majesty to the city. After his visit to the library, he travelled to Leeds Building Society HQ to meet with representative’s from the ...