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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.
(example National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47)
inscription:- printed lower right
THE COUNTY / OF / WESTMORELAND, / SURVEYED / Anno MDCCLXVIII / and Engraved by / THOMAS JEFFERYS / Geographer to His / MAJESTY / MDCCLXX.
inscription:- 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
wxh, sheet (combined):- 111x105cm
wxh, map (combined):- 1069x989mm
inscription:- 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
scale line (statute):- 4 + 1 miles = 125.3 mm
scale:- 1 to 64000 ? (1 to 64220 from scale line)
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references:- 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

sources:- National Library of Scotland
Kendal Library Maps
Kendal Record Office
Rodger 1972

items seen (illustrated items in bold, * have map squares etc):-
   Kendal Library : Map 141 -- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Plan of Kendal -- Kendal
   Kendal Library : Map 145 -- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Plan of Kendal
   KendalRO : WDX 38/1 -- map -- County of Westmoreland
   National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 -- map -- County of Westmoreland -- Kendal *
see:-   National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 (PLC2inc)