|
|
|
|
item:- Carlisle Library : Map
153
|
|
|
Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 7
miles to 1 inch, by James Pigot and Co, 1826-27, published
by Isaac Slater, Fleet Street, London, and Fountain Street,
Manchester, about 1845?
The map has a vignette of Carlisle Cathedral.
Railways have been added to the original map - Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Caledonian Railway; Maryport
and Carlisle Railway 1840-45; Whitehaven Junction Railway
1846-47; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway 1849-55;
Furness Railway 1846-54; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
1846; Kendal and Windermere Railway 1846.
The imprint has clearly been altered to replace Pigot by
Slater.
|
|
|
Pigot 1826
|
|
map feature:-
|
plain cartouche & vignettes & compass rose & up
is N & scale line & lat and long scales (Longitude
West from London) & table of symbols & sea plain
& coast form lines & rivers & lakes & woods
& forests & parks & county & wards
(hundreds) & table of wards (hundreds) & settlements
& roads & road distances & distances from London
& sands roads & canals & railways &
electoral data
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed title cartouche, top centre
CUMBERLAND.
fancy font
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed bottom centre and right
Published by I. Slater, Fleet Street, London & Fountain
St. Manchester. / Engraved on Steel by I. Slater,
Manchester
|
|
inscription:-
|
printed above and after scale line
SCALE / Miles
|
|
scale line:-
|
10 miles = 36.8 mm
|
|
scale:-
|
1 to 440000 ? (1 to 437322 from scale line assuming a
statute mile)
|
|
wxh, sheet:-
|
30x40.5cm
|
|
wxh, map:-
|
227x350mm
|