Pigot 1826
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie
Westmorland, scale about 4.5 miles to 1 inch, by James Pigot
and Co, Basing Lane, London, 1826-27, probably published
about 1831.
Lower right there is a vignette of Kendal Church. Engraved by Pigot and Co, Manchester about 1826-27; published in Pigot and Co's British Atlas of the Counties of England. |
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Pigot 1826 | |
| map feature:- | plain cartouche & vignettes & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection?) & table of wards (hundreds) & table of symbols & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & woods & forests & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & canals | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, top centre
WESTMORELAND. fancy font |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom centre and right
Published by Pigot & Co. 1 Basing Lane London & 18 Fountain St. Manchester. / Engraved on Steel by Pigot & Son. Manchester |
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printed above and after scale line
Scale / Miles |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 57.8 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 280000 ? (1 to 278433 from scale line assuming a statute mile) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 41x27.5cm | |
| wxh, plate:- | 378x251mm (?) | |
| wxh, map:- | 354x222mm | |