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Early maps and boundary markers to go on show in Wells for Heritage Open Days

By Laura Linham   12th Sep 2025

Wells Town Hall hosts a pop-up display on 18 September for Heritage Open Days, showcasing historic city border records and rare maps from 1601.
Wells Town Hall hosts a pop-up display on 18 September for Heritage Open Days, showcasing historic city border records and rare maps from 1601.

Wells Town Hall will host a new pop-up display on Thursday 18 September as part of Heritage Open Days, offering a rare look at how the city border has been recorded across centuries.

The display, drawn from the Wells City Archives, will feature some of the earliest maps in the collection, including a photographic copy of one of the oldest known maps of Wells dating back to 1601, on loan from Lambeth Palace Library.

It will also look beyond maps to earlier markers of the boundary: boundary stones, and descriptions from some of the oldest written records in the archives—showing how Wells' limits were defined before formal surveying.

The event is part of the wider Heritage Open Days festival that runs across England.

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