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map type:- Simpson 1746
map
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Maps, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and
Cumberland? printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
Included in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson.
The title page states '... after the Designs of HERMAN MOLL,
and others. ...'; the map has much the same detail as the
map by Moll 1724.
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(map example Dove Cottage : 2007.38.60)
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map feature:-
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coat of arms (spurious) & compass rose & up is N
& scale line & sea plain & coast form lines
& rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks &
woods & trees & parks & county & settlements
& roads
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inscription:-
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printed top
WESTMORLAND
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wxh, sheet:-
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20.5x17cm
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wxh, map:-
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mm189x154
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 32.3 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 500000 ? (1 to 498249 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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references:-
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Simpson, Samuel: 1746: Agreeable Historian & Compleat
English Traveller: Walker, R (London)
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sources:-
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Chubb 1927 (CLXXXIV)
Wordsworth Trust Collection
Armitt Library
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.90
-- map -- Westmorland
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Carlisle Library : Map 70
-- map -- Westmorland
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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
-- map -- Westmorland
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