Land and ownership maps

Township of Ellel. Parish of Cockerham. 1846.

A series of images based on small sections of 19th century tithe commutation maps. Screen-printed in mud, and gold acrylic, with hand-painted gold.

Over the past few years I have been researching the history of landownership of an area near where I live. The selected area is a west-east slice of north Lancashire from the remains of Cockersand Abbey on the sea coast, to the moorlands at the Trough of Bowland. More details can be found here.
The above six prints are based on small sections of Tithe Maps for this area which were produced in the mid nineteenth century, and which show the names of the owner and occupier of every plot of land. They were screen printed with mud from the estuary of the river Lune, close to where I live, and the details screen printed and/or hand-painted with gold acrylic.

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Map Fragments

Three screenprints of details from maps showing landownership boundaries used in the national Land Valuation Survey of 1910, were printed with gold acrylic and mud from Glasson Marsh on the estuary of the River Lune.

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Lune Estuary Glasson Marsh mud

Two screenprints from a series made with mud collected from Glasson Marsh on the estuary of the River Lune near Lancaster.

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