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Kendal Library : Map 154
Railway map, coloured lithograph, Bacon's Map of Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Edward Weller, published by George W Bacon and Co, London, 1870s?.
The map is in a poor state, edges folded over and taped, mounted, varnished, cracked, torn, difficult to identify.
The railways shown are - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Maryport and Carlisle Railway, open 1840-45; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, open 1846; Kendal and Windermere Railway, open 1846-47; Whitehaven Junction Railway, open 1846-47; Furness Railway, open 1846-48; Caledonian Railway, open 1847; Cockermouth and Workington Railway, open 1847; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, open 1848; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, open 1849-50; Alston branch railway, open 1852; Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, open 1854; Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway, open 1856-57 and 1864-66; Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, open 1857; Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway, open 1857; Coniston Railway, open 1859-60; Border Union Railway, open 1861; Low Gill and Ingleton branch railway, open 1861; South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, open 1861; Eden Valley Railway, open 1862; Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, open 1864-65; Egremont and Sellafield branch railway, open 1869; Lakeside branch railway, open 1869; Solway Junction Railway, open 1869-70; Settle and Carlisle Railway, open 1876; and the Arnside to Hincaster branch railway, open 1876 shown dotted. This suggest a map date about 1870s.
   Bacon 1870s
map feature:- vignettes (Windermere lake from near Newby Bridge, Coniston Water, Morecame Bay from Leven Viaduct, and Kent Viaduct, Arnside) & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & sandbanks & coast line (tinted) & foreshore sands & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & woods & parks & county & settlements & wards & electoral data & roads & sands roads & railways
inscription:- printed upper centre
BACON'S / MAP OF / CUMBERLAND / AND / WESTMORLAND / BY EDWD. WELLER, F.R.G.S.
inscription:- printed with scale line
British Statute Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 102.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 69.5x84.5cm
scale:- 1 to 160000 ? (1 to 157624 from scale line)