The Bodleian Libraries have taken the Gough Map of Great Britain resource offline, owing to a change in guidance within the University relating to cyber security.

Gough Map of Great Britain resource has therefore been taken offline as a precaution, in the light of the new guidance, while we develop new approaches to being able to support and deliver it.

We acknowledge how disruptive this has been to the many scholars and communities who use this resource. Alternative ways to access the Gough Map of Great Britain resource are below, while we determine routes and funding to take the resource forward.

More on the background here: Bodleian Service Updates

A digitized facsimile of the Gough Map is available via Digital Bodleian

For queries about the Gough Map Research Project, please contact maps@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

About the Project

The Gough Map of Great Britain and its Making

New research on the Gough Map is providing us with more information about how it was made and when.

The interactive digital version of the map accessible here derives from the 'Linguistic Geographies' research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2010-11).

The interactive map content will soon be further revised and updated thanks to a three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded Gough Map Research Project (RPG-2019-070: Understanding the medieval Gough Map through physics, chemistry and history), based at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The latest published research on the map appears in Imago Mundi: the international journal for the History of Cartography (2017), 69 (1), pp.1-36.

The project team is working with the publisher Brill, and a volume outlining the research outcomes of the current project will become available after 2025.

Date when website was withdrawn:
29 November 2024