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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.94
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Map, colour lithograph, Cumberland N, part of Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, first drawn by Edward Weller for the Weekly Dispatch newspaper, 1856-62, edn published by G W Bacon and Co? London, about 1880s?
Plate 9 in the Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles.
Railways are a prominent feature.
Version of this map were published from 1850s to 1930s.
   Dispatch 1863
map feature:- up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal projection) & index grid (1..11, A..G) & table of symbols & table of data (population) & sea tinted & coast tinted & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & electoral data & settlements & roads & canals & railways
inscription:- printed upper left
CUMBERLAND / AND / WESTMORLAND / REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY / BY EDWD. WELLER, F.R.G.S / Divided into 5 miles squares
inscription:- printed bottom
(CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND, NORTH SHEET)
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 75.5 mm
scale:- 1 to 210000 ? (1 to 213158 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 52x34cm
wxh, map:- 460x301mm