Edinburgh has 15 weirs.

How weired is your city?

#weirs #weird #weired

It's always interesting to see a past #landscape through the eyes of the people who inhabited it. This beautifully drawn and painted #map shows the #bridges, #weirs and #watermills across the river #Trent between Nottingham and Newark in the early 16thC in such loving detail that one can almost imagine standing on each site with the cartographer as he sketches.

The (enlargeable) map is online at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/map-of-the-river-trent-and-its-tributaries-between-nottingham-and-newark