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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.41
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Pigot and Slater, Manchester, published by Pigot and Co, Manchester and London, about 1835.
Included in A Pocket Topography and Gazetteer of England.
The accompanying page has an engraving of Holy Trinity Church, Kendal, and a table of distances for the county.
   Pigot 1835
map feature:- plain cartouche & north point & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection? the longitude scale jumps 5 minutes across the piece hidden by cartouches) & table of symbols (includes railroads) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & forests & county & settlements & roads (turnpike roads) & canals
inscription:- printed title cartouche, top
WESTMORELAND.
inscription:- printed bottom right
Pigot & Slater, Engravers, Manchr.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Miles.
scale line:- 10 miles = 25.9 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 55m W (?)
wxh, sheet:- 12.5x19.5cm
wxh, map:- 165x104mm
scale:- 1 to 620000 ? (1 to 621368 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
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