Cooke 1802

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		MAP FEATURES
	These notes are mostly made from the Westmorland map, with extra material from the adjacent maps. Notes from the map of The Lakes in the series are not included here.
	The Westmorland map is plate 4. Other maps in the road book relevant to Cumbria are: plate 1 South of Scotland; plate 2 Cumberland; plate 3 Northumberland; plate 6 Lancashire; plate 9 Durham; plate 11 North Riding of Yorkshire; plate 12 West Riding of Yorkshire.
	title cartouche plain cartouche	Printed in a shaded rectangular cartouche upper centre is:- WESTMORELAND
	orientation compass rose up is E	Printed upper right is a compass rose; circle, star points for cardinal directions, lines for half cardinal directions, North marked by a fleur de lys. The map is printed with East at the top of the sheet. Other maps in the series are printed other ways: South of Scotland, up is E; Cumberland, up is N; Northumberland, up is N; Lancashire, up is N; Durham, up is W; North Riding of Yorkshire, up is W; West Riding of Yorkshire, up is W.
	scale line scale	Printed lower middle is a:- Scale of Statute Miles chequered and labelled in 5 mile intervals. the 10 miles = 21.5 mm gives a map scale 1 to 748532. The map scale is about:- 1 to 750000 12 miles to 1 inch Other maps in the series are to different scales, roughly: Cumberland, 15.5 miles to 1 inch; Northumberland, 17.5 miles to 1 inch; Lancashire, 18 miles to 1 inch; Durham, 11.5 miles to 1 inch; North Riding of Yorkshire, 21 miles to 1 inch; West Riding of Yorkshire, 21 miles to 1 inch.
	lat and long lat and long scales	Printed in the map borders are scales of latitude and longitude for a rectangular projection; chequered and labelled at 5 minute intervals. NB: the minutes of longitude at the left and right are labelled incorrectly upwards, as latitude would be, instead of downwards. The map seems to include from 2d 29m to 3d 12m W, from 53d 54m to 54d 30m N; the whole of Westmorland. Interpreting from the scales the longitude, Kendal = 2d 53.5m W as it should be about 2d 45m the discrepancy suggests that the scales are unreliable, rather than a prime meridian 10m W of Greenwich?
	sea plain	There is no sea on the Westmorland map. The sea off Cumberland is plain.
	coast line coast form lines	The small bit of coast line in the Kent Estuary is drawn with form lines. The coast on the Cumberland map is the same.
	rivers	Rivers are drawn by a wiggly line tapering upstream. Rivers have tributaries filling available space. Some rivers are labelled, eg:- Kent River Tees Riv. Eden R.
	lakes	Lakes are drawn in outline with form lines. Some lakes are labelled:- Winander Mere Horns Water [Haweswater] Ulles Water Others might be recognised:- Brothers Water Cow Green Reservoir (now) Elter Water (?) Grasmere Kentmere Tarn Loughrigg Tarn (?) Rydal Water Skeggles Water [decoy pond, Lowther] The Cumberland map labels:- Bassenthwaite Water Burnmoor tarn Crummock Water Derwent Water Ennerdale Water Thirle Meer Ulles Water Wast Water and also shows:- Buttermere Lowes Water The Lancashire map labels:- Coniston Water Winander Meer and also shows:- Esthwaite Water
	relief	No relief is indicated by the map.
	parks	Parks are drawn by a simplified outline with fence palings, the interior pecked. Some parks are labelled, eg:- Trogtbeck Park Levens Pa. Killington P.
	county	The county boundary is a dashed line which might or might not be continued where it coincides with another feature. For instance it is shown through Ullswater and shown down the river Winster, but not shown round Windermere or along the River Tees. Adjacent counties are divided, and labelled, eg:- LANCASHIRE YORK SHIRE Some features are shown outwith the county area for the continuity of roads, for example in the Sedbergh and Ingleton areas, and at Penrith.
	wards table of wards	Ward, comparable to hundred, boundaries are dotted lines. The ward areas are labelled by number keying to a table printed lower left:- WARDS 1 east ward 2 West Ward 3 Kendall 4 Lonsdale Printed at the bottom of this, uncoloured, map is:- The County Town is denoted by red and the respective Hundreds of the County by different Colours which distinctions are peculiar to the superior Edition. One coloured map seen, of Cumberland, has colour on the county boundary but not on the hundred boundaries, and several towns are picked out by red. Perhaps this was done by a later colourist who has not read the instructions.
	settlements electoral data distances from London	Settlements are marked by blocks, differentiated by style of labelling.
	cities	On the companion map of Cumberland a city is marked by blocks; labelled in upright block caps.
	towns	blocks; labelled in upright lowercase text, eg:- Kendall / 257 Ambleside / 281 except APPLEBY / 267 [2 stars] in italic block caps as the de jure county town, a borough returning two members to Parliament, shown by the stars. the figures are distances from London. The map might be found coloured, as noted at the bottom:- The County Town is denoted by red ... which distinctions are peculiar to the superior Edition.
	villages   hamlets	blocks; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Shap Staveley Crosslands
	roads post roads	A network of roads is drawn by double lines.Two routes are emphasised by shading along the lines, perhaps post roads. These two routes are:- from the south, Lancashire; through Burton in Kendal, Kendal, Shap, Westmorland; then Penrith and north, Cumberland. from the east, Yorkshire; through Brough, Appleby, joining the N-S route at the River Lowther, Westmorland. The destinations of some roads is given at the county boundary, eg:- to Bowes, Greta Br. & Catterick - the London Road to Lancaster London R. to London by Settle to Keswick &c - the Whitehaven Road from Carlisle - the Gt. North Road and so on.
	canals	It is possible to imagine a line ending at Kendal as the Lancaster Canal.

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