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Carlisle Library : Map 112
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Map, hand coloured lithograph, Carlisle, proposed new boundary, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Captain Robert K Dawson, lithographed by Josiah Nethercliff, 54 Leicester Square, London, about 1832.
Surveyed by R Thornton and T Smith. Drawn for the Reform Act 1832.
The table of symbols has - 'Explanations / Boundary of Old Borough ... Green / Proposed Boundary ... Red / Boundaries of Parishes and Townships ... Brown Rivers ... Blue'
   Dawson 1830s
map feature:- table of symbols & north point & up is N & scale line & rivers & woods & settlements & roads & canals ('SOLWAY CANAL') & electoral data
inscription:- printed upper off centre
CARLISLE.
inscription:- printed lower left
Robt. K. Dawson Lieut. R.E. / R. Thornton & T. Smith Surveyors
inscription:- printed bottom
Josh. Nethercliff Lithog. 54, Leicester Sq.
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale, 3 inches to a Mile
scale line:- 1+1 miles = 152.5 mm
wxh, sheet:- 38x33cm
wxh, map:- 36x35cm
scale:- 1 to 21000 ? (1 to 21106 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)