If you're inspired by the Mappa Mundi, check out our guide to map illustration. Surely the best map design for a scientific breakthrough, this identified how cholera was spreading in and around ...

Drawn a single sheet of vellum, the Mappa Mundi reflects the medieval church with Jerusalem at the centre of the worldThe Hereford Mappa Mundi is an outstanding treasure of the medieval world ...

Explore two of Hereford Cathedral's unique treasures. The Mappa Mundi is a huge map, over 700 years old, showing the world as medieval people understood it. It's a world teeming with animals ...