years_active other_names article_title employer name occupation
circa 1618 -- 1640 nycholas lane nicholas lane -lrb- cartographer -rrb-
 charles i of england nicholas lane surveyor and cartographer
nicholas lane -lrb- cartographer -rrb-

nicholas lane was an english surveyor and cartographer , active in the early part of the seventeenth century , rising to prominence in his works for king charles i. lane 's early work included a plan of oxdownes , cobham , surrey dated 1618 , a copy of which is held in the surrey history centre .
in the 1620s he mapped land at chessington belonging to merton college , oxford .
the area was the subject of a long running manor boundary dispute between the college 's land and royal land of nonsuch great park the part of which that subsequently became known as worcester park .
lane 's map of 1627 documents the final resolution of the dispute , a decision subsequently re-confirmed by charles i in 1633 .
charles i commissioned lane to map the proposed site of his new hunting park at richmond .
this pre-enclosure map of richmond park , surveyed in 1632 but completed in 1637/8 , depicts the mixture of common land and private holdings and the route of the projected wall to surround the new park .
annotations on the map are believed to be in the hand of charles i. lane 's noble clients included francis browne , 3rd viscount montagu , who , in 1635 , commissioned lane to survey his holdings at cowdray , easebourne priory and verdley .
in 1637 lane produced several maps of areas of fenland including great common fen at wisbech , others between crowland and eye and a sketch map of laddus fen near upwell .
he also surveyed fens around ramsey belonging to oliver cromwell .
lane 's surviving work provides a valuable resource for historians .
for example , lane 's 1636 plan of putney , combined with the 1665 hearth tax list provided a key source required to reconstruct a detailed view of life in the london suburb in the late seventeenth century .
