"When Walter Hooper asked [C.S. Lewis] where he found the word 'Narnia', Lewis showed him 'Murray's Small Classical Atlas', ed. G.B. Grundy (1904), which he acquired when he was reading the classics with Mr William T. Kirkpatrick at Great Bookham [1914–1917]. On plate 8 of the 'Atlas' is a map of ancient Italy. Lewis had underscored the name of a little town called Narnia, simply because he liked the sound of it. Narnia – or 'Narni' in Italian – is in Umbria, halfway between Rome and Assisi" (Roger Lancelyn Green).

Narni, a small medieval town, is situated at the top of an olive- covered hill. It was already ancient when the Romans defeated it in 299 BC. Its thirteenth-century fortress dominates a deep, narrow gorge of the Nera river which runs below. One of its most important archaeological features is a Romanesque cathedral, which contains the relics of a number of Umbrian saints.

The Atlas
The maps were originally produced by Edward Stanford's Geographic Establishment, founded in London in 1853.

Contents:
I. Empires of the Babylonians, Lydians, Medes, and Persians.
II. The Roman Empire, B.C. 218-A.D.100.
III. The Roman Empire A.D. 1-300.
IV. Britannia.
V. Hispania.
VI. Gallia.
VII. Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire.
VIII. Italia.
IX. Egypt. Rome and Latium. Rome in the time of the Emperors.&c.
X. Graecia.
XI. Aegean Sea.
XII. Asia Minor.
XIII. The Principal Battle Fields in Greek and Roman History.
XIV. Palestine.