The map is listed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register and described as ‘the only complete example of a large medieval world map intended for public display’. In many ways, it serves as ...

The creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi did not work to create an accurate geographical representation, as the creators of maps do today, but rather to glorify the Christian view of the world. As ...

Hereford voted overwhelmingly for Leave. Maps and their ghosts remind us that our sense of the world, and our place within it, are contingent. The Mappa Mundi is the largest surviving medieval map. An ...

Image source, Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust The next image shows the first time that the name 'America' was used on a map as a term for the New World. Image source, Library of Congress, Geography and ...

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has worked with a diverse group of people in Herefordshire to create a new textile commission for local charity Meadow Arts, inspired by the Hereford Mappa ...

Hereford Cathedral says its map is the largest of its kind still in existence A medieval map of the world that was believed to have been made miles away from the cathedral where it is on display ...