Dominic Harbour, curator at Hereford Cathedral, shows Andrew Marston the secrets of this piece of art, which has survived to this day, including pilgrim and trade routes around the then known world, ...

The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

01. Hereford Mappa Mundi, by Richard of Haldingham or Lafford, c.1300 While there are thankfully quite a few historic world maps still knocking around today, the Mappa Mundi kept in Hereford ...

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 ...

Hereford Cathedral is home to the oldest surviving Medieval map of the world - the Mappa Mundi. The majority of the medieval maps of the world that survive today were not designed for travel.