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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.41
image:- ©
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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.
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Pigot 1835
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, top
WESTMORELAND.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right
Pigot & Slater, Engravers, Manchr.
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
Scale of Miles.
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 25.9 mm
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longitude, Kendal:-
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2d 55m W (?)
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wxh, sheet:-
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12.5x19.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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165x104mm
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scale:-
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1 to 620000 ? (1 to 621368 from scale line assuming a
statute mile)
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notes
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