Press
Rural Maps has been featured in Quest Magazine, the Financial Times, BBC One Countryfile, The Field, Shooting Gazette, Sporting Shooter, Sporting Gun and Farmers Weekly, and has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University.
-
“These are maps unlike any I have seen before. The level of detail is breathtaking – from the inclusion of field names and shoot drives to the painstaking positioning of individual trees, they are not just geographically accurate but also serve as a personal memoir that the family can cherish for generations to come.”
Sporting Shooter ‘Where can I commission a decorative map of my property or estate?'
-
“Maps commissioned by country estates are valuable historical records as well as being aesthetic objects.”
Financial Times ‘The art of hand drawn map making’
-
“As featured on BBC Countryfile episode about traditional and contemporary rural craftmen”
BBC 1 - Countryfile
-
“Pelly’s classical masterpieces visually tell a tale - preserving the culture and foundation of our ‘places’ ”
‘Maps to Treasure’ - Quest Magazine by Jonathan Young, former Editor-in-Chief of The Field. October 2025 Field & Country Issue.
-
“Maps don’t just tell us where we are; they tell us who we are”
The Maps that Matter - The Field
-
“Producing some of the finest bespoke maps today. They would look the part in shoot lodges, farm offices and drawing rooms across the world.”
Shooting Gazette Article ‘Rural Maps: Cartographers mapping out sporting estates’
-
“Distilling data into maps & visual hierarchy.”
Stanford University, California USA - Guest Lecturer ‘From maps to meaning’
-
“Rural Maps is one of those companies that truly epitomises all that Made in Britain has come to stand for”
Sporting Shooter ‘The Rural Maps team are combining beauty and functionality in the most extraordinary way’
-
“Maps showing hidden farm hazards can help save lives”
Farmers Weekly article
-
“Rural Maps is a map design company that creates maps including all of the detail a landowner needs.”
Meon Valley farmer's map firm charts a route to success | The News (portsmouth.co.uk)
-
“Despite all this technology, the business is still firmly wedded in the countryside, with wellington boots on and mud on its feet”
Getting Creative with Connectivity - Rural Business Awards
-
“Detailed maps are increasingly being produced for landowners who are concerned about employees working in remote locations in the event of an accident or other incident requiring support from the emergency services”
Directions Magazine June 2016
-
“Top of the Tree”
Print Business ‘the printed map still has a role to play’
-
“The result is a completely unique, incredibly detailed and visually stunning record of the shoot”
‘Immortalize your shoot’ Sporting Shooter
Quest Magazine
October 2025
‘Maps to Treasure’
By Jonathan Young, former Editor-in-Chief of The Field
Jonathan Young was Editor-in-Chief of The Field for nearly three decades. His piece in the October August 2025 Field & Country issue of Quest Magazine covers the Rural Maps commission at Amistad Ranch, Florida, and the broader tradition of bespoke estate and ranch mapping. Amistad Ranch is a 4,500-acre Florida sporting estate managed by Roy Green, formerly Sporting Manager of Buccleuch Estates. The map measures 9ft × 5ft.
Read the article in Quest Magazine Online issue
The Field
August 2025
‘Maps That Matter’
By Janet Menzies
Janet Menzies explores the history and enduring value of estate maps for The Field, tracing the tradition from Tudor county surveys to the present day. Anthony Pelly and Rural Maps feature throughout the piece: on the importance of capturing the names and knowledge that only the people who work the land possess, on finding things the present owner didn’t know were there, and on the 1684 vellum estate map of Preshaw hanging on the family's wall — the same field boundaries, many of the same names, still recognisable more than three centuries later. The article places Rural Maps within a centuries-old tradition of mapping as a form of knowledge and memory.
Read the article in The Field
BBC One Countryfile
September 2017
‘Rame Peninsula’
BBC One.
Rural Maps featured on BBC One Countryfile, the UK’s most-watched factual programme about the British countryside. Presenter, Tom Heap is on the hunt for traditional Bristish craftsmen and women. With many heritage crafts dying out, Tom is keen to find out what can be done to save them. Rural Maps was featured as an example of a contemporary rural craft, with discussions between Anna Price and Tom in the Rural Maps studio in Hampshire.
Watch the programme on BBC iPlayer
Financial Times
April 2016
‘The Art of Hand-Drawn Map-Making’
By Emma Crichton-Miller
Emma Crichton-Miller explores the tradition of bespoke estate and landscape map-making for the Financial Times, placing Rural Maps alongside some of the finest contemporary practitioners in the field. The piece traces the history of rural cartography from the dissolution of the monasteries to the present day, and examines why landowners continue to commission hand-crafted maps as both working tools and permanent records of their estates. Sir Kenneth Carlisle of Wyken Hall in Suffolk, who commissioned a Rural Maps map and hangs it alongside an estate map from 1780, describes them as important historical records.
Read the article in the Financial Times PDF of article
Sporting Gun
June 2022
‘Rural Maps — Making Memories’
Sporting Gun
Sporting Gun visits the Rural Maps studio in Hampshire — a converted barn on the family estate near Winchester — to explore how beauty and functionality combine in a Rural Maps commission. The piece covers the studio’s approach to bespoke map-making, from the earliest commissions at Gusbourne Estate vineyard in Kent to large-format decorative maps for sporting properties across Florida, Portugal and Scotland. It examines how the maps capture not just geography but the given names, personal stories and hidden details that make each property unique.
Read the article in Sporting Gun
Sporting Shooter
February 2019
‘Rural Maps’
By Emily Damment
Emily Damment visits the Rural Maps studio for Sporting Shooter, examining three commissions in detail: the Amistad Ranch map in Florida — 9ft × 5ft with over 16,000 individual trees and a hidden Labrador in the cartography — a wild partridge shoot on a Portuguese estate with vineyards by the river, and a 5,000-acre Scottish grouse moor with all its butts, bogs and ruins mapped in full. The article also explains the difference between UK studio maps, built on Ordnance Survey data, and overseas commissions which require Anthony to spend time on the ground with the client.
Read the article in Sporting Shooter
Shooting Times (ShootingUK)
April 2015
‘Rural Maps: Cartographers Mapping Out Sporting Estates’
By Shooting Times
Shooting Times covers the Rural Maps approach to sporting estate cartography, exploring how bespoke maps serve both as working management tools and as decorative objects for shoot lodges and country houses. The article examines how a detailed estate map can help guns and keepers understand the full extent of a property — its drives, its boundaries, its topography — and how that knowledge improves both the safety and the enjoyment of a day’s shooting.
Read the article in Shooting Times
Shooting Gazette
March 2015
‘Where Do You Think You Are?’
By John Walker
John Walker visits the Rural Maps studio in Hampshire to explore how bespoke estate and shoot maps are made — from the history of rural cartography to the practical value of a large-format map in the shoot lodge. The article covers the range of information a bespoke map can capture, from drive positions and peg numbers to field boundaries, woodland, water and areas of risk, and explains how a map can educate guns and keepers about hidden features and important landmarks across the shoot.
Read the article in Shooting Gazette
Farmers Weekly
June 2020
‘Maps Showing Hidden Farm Hazards Can Help Save Lives’
By Philip Clarke, Executive Editor, Farmers Weekly
Philip Clarke writes for Farmers Weekly on the role of detailed farm maps in identifying and communicating hidden hazards — buried pipes, drainage systems, electrical infrastructure and other underground features that are invisible to farm workers and contractors without a comprehensive map. The article examines how Rural Maps’ approach to layered, detailed farm mapping can improve safety on agricultural properties by making the invisible visible.
Read the article on Farmers Weekly PDF of article