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 map creator, 41, is confident that his guide ... land documents and city records at Leeds Central Library. Familiar names from the past include The Duchess of York, Cafe Inseine, The Mitre ...

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.