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map type:- Bartholomew
1900s
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Travelling Maps series, Reduced Ordnance Survey Maps,
various scales, by John Bartholomew and Co, Edinburgh,
published by W H Smith and Son, 186 Strand, London, about
1900s.
Two maps in the series are relevant to Westmorland and
Cumberland:-
The Lake District, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch;
Windermere and Morecambe Bay, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile.
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(example private collection (282)(going to Dove Cottage?))
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map feature:-
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mounted & folded (4x3) & card covers & table of
symbols & up is N & scale line & sea tinted
& coast line & foreshore sands & rivers &
lakes & relief & layer colouring & spot heights
& table of heights & settlements & roads &
canals & railways
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inscription:-
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printed top
REDUCED ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF THE LAKE DISTRICT / BY
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.G.S.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right
John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr.
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inscription:-
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printed cover
black on blue, with red on black title label
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inscription:-
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printed advertisement inside front cover
W. H. SMITH & SON'S SERIES OF / TRAVELLING MAPS. / BY
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.G.S. / ...
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wxh, cover:-
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11x17cm
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wxh, sheet:-
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39x47.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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364x435mm
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
SCALE OF 3 MILES TO AN INCH.
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scale line:-
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6 miles = 49.9 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 190000 ? (1 to 193508 from scale line)
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sources:-
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private collection (Wordsworth Trust?)
Armitt Library
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sources:-
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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Armitt Library : A1811
-- map -- Windermere and Morecambe Bay -- Reduced Survey
Map of Windermere and Morecambe Bay -- Travelling Maps
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private collection (282)
-- map -- Reduced Ordnance Survey Map of The Lake District
-- Lake District -- Travelling Maps
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