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map type:- Jefferys
1770
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Map, 2x2 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch
to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by
Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
There is an inset map of Kendal.
Published in a 2nd edn by William Faden, London,
1800.
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(example National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47)
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inscription:-
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printed lower right
THE COUNTY / OF / WESTMORELAND, / SURVEYED / Anno
MDCCLXVIII / and Engraved by / THOMAS JEFFERYS / Geographer
to His / MAJESTY / MDCCLXX.
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inscription:-
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printed upper left
To the / Nobility Gentry / CLERGY and FREEHOLDERS / OF
THE / COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND / Subscribers to this SURVEY. /
This MAP is Most humbly Inscribed / By their most Obedient
and / Devoted Servant / Thomas Jefferys.
dedication
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wxh, sheet (combined):-
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111x105cm
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wxh, map (combined):-
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1069x989mm
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
SCALES / Geographical Miles 60 to a Degree / Statute
Miles 69 1/2 nearly to a Degree / N.B. one Mile is 8
Furlongs a Furlong 40 Poles 16 1/2 Feet Statute Measure
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scale line (statute):-
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4 + 1 miles = 125.3 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 64000 ? (1 to 64220 from scale line)
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references:-
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Hindle, Paul (introduction): 2001: Thomas Jefferys Historic
Map of Westmorland 1770: Cumberland and Westmorland
Antiquarian and archaeological Society:: ISBN 1 873124 35 X;
redicued size facsimile, difficult to read
Curwen, John F: 1918: Chorography, or a Descriptive
Catalogue of the Printed Maps, of Cumberland and
Westmoreland: Trans CWAAS: new series vo.18: pp.1-92
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sources:-
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National Library of Scotland
Kendal Library Maps
Kendal Record Office
Rodger 1972
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items seen (illustrated items in bold, * have map squares etc):- |
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Kendal Library : Map 141
-- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Plan of Kendal --
Kendal
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Kendal Library : Map 145
-- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Plan of Kendal
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KendalRO : WDX 38/1
-- map -- County of Westmoreland
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National Library of Scotland :
EME.s.47
-- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Kendal *
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see:-
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National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
(PLC2inc)
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