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Lithographed by R Martin, London; shows proposed division of the county, principal places of county election, boroughs returning 2 members and 1 member.
Map, hand coloured lithograph, Cumberland, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, showing the proposed parliamentary divisions, made for the Reform Bill 1832, by Lieut Robert K Dawson RE, 1831, perhaps copied 1937?
This is probably a copy from the Report of the Municipal Corporation Boundaries Commission, 1937.
   Dawson 1830s
map feature:- county & wards (hundreds) & roads & settlements & scale line & north point & table of symbols & electoral data
inscription:- printed lower right
Cumberland.
english black letter
inscription:- printed ms lower right
Robt. K. Dawson, / Lieut. R.E.
inscription:- printed lower right
C. Ingrey, Lithog. 340, Strand.
scale line:- 10 miles = 37.9 mm
scale:- 1 to 420000 ? (1 to 424629 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 30x35cm