STADIUM HERITAGE A UNITED KINGDOM CARTOGRAPHY STUDIO

The Studio

A cartography studio with a sports heritage practice.

Stadium Heritage was founded with a single editorial principle: that the great venues of UK sport deserve to be recorded with the same rigour, and on the same Ordnance Survey base, as any other piece of national infrastructure or historic interest.

Stadium Heritage is not a fan-craft brand. It is a serious cartography studio with a sports heritage practice.

The Cartographer

The studio is led by a professional cartographer with a published record on significant United Kingdom mapping projects.

The cartographer holds a Master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems and has worked across a long career in public mapping, transport infrastructure, and large-scale GIS projects for councils and public bodies across the four nations of the United Kingdom.

Stadium Heritage applies the same standards, the same data conventions, and the same archival materials used in serious geographic publishing to the heritage of UK sport. The studio is independent and founder-led.

Professional record, in summary

  • London 2012 Olympic Park. The cartographer’s published work includes the public mapping for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games — the maps used to navigate the Park during the most-attended Games of the modern era.
  • Transport for London. Long-form cartographic work for Transport for London, the agency responsible for surface transport, the Underground, the Overground, and the Elizabeth line. TfL’s mapping standards are among the most demanding in the United Kingdom.
  • Council and public-body mapping. Cartographic and interactive GIS work for councils and public bodies across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland — work that is not normally seen by the public, but that gives the studio its working knowledge of specialist cartography at scale.
  • MSc in Geographic Information Systems. The academic foundation for the studio’s methodology — not a hobbyist or self-taught practice, but a credentialed professional discipline.
  • Active Ordnance Survey MasterMap licence. The studio holds an active Ordnance Survey MasterMap licence and applies it to the heritage of UK sport — a use that no other studio is currently making of the data.

The Studio at Work

The cartographic ambition.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club mapped with all courts visible

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, with Centre Court, No.1 Court, and the surrounding courts placed in their true geographic positions. A piece in development — the studio’s most editorially ambitious work to date.

The Discipline

A studio defined by what it will not do, as much as by what it will.

The studio does not, and will not, produce work for institutions or clubs without a written licensing agreement.
The studio does not produce on speculation. Every piece is dated, numbered, and signed in ink by the cartographer.
Every Stadium Heritage edition is limited to seventy-five copies. The edition is closed when the seventy-fifth piece is sold and never reprinted in that form.
The studio is small by design. Capacity is paced against demonstrated demand and against the time it takes to do the work properly.
Pre-orders are accepted and the piece produced once reserved. Lead time four to six weeks. The studio does not promise faster.
Every piece is signed in ink by the cartographer. The signature is part of what the buyer is paying for, and is not delegable.

Stadium Heritage maps the great venues of UK sport. Every player a street, every season a memory, every map a legacy.