Ford 1839 map

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	item:- Armitt Library : ALMC2000.21.1
	Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by R Groombridge and Sons, 5 Paternoster Row, London, and by Charles Thurnam, 5 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1850. Pasted inside the front cover of A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, 1839, 5th edn 1850. The map is folded 4x3 sections, with the extra piece tucked in; it is crumpled. The map shows the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, and Maryport and Carlisle Railway. The added piece of map extends the NandCRy to Newcastle ,and the railway from there to North Shields. Notice the list of railway stations on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, printed lower left:- Scotby, Wetheral, How Mill, Milton, Low Row, Rosehill, Greenhead, Haltwhistle, etc. Road distances might be given, for example on the road, Lancaster to Carlise, from Lancaster, through Burton, Kendal, Shap, Penrith, to Carlisle - L to B 11 MS. / B to K 11 MS. / K to S 16 MS. / S to P 11 MS. / P to C 18 MS.
		Ford 1839 map
	map feature:-	compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoid projection?) & sea plain & coast line & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & road distances & railways & canals
	inscription:-	printed lower left A / MAP / OF THE / Lake District / OF / CUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND / and / LANCASHIRE.
	inscription:-	printed above scale line Statute Miles.
	scale line:-	8 miles = 56.3 mm
	wxh, folded:-	9.5x17cm
	wxh, sheet (without added slip):-	36x49.5cm
	wxh, map (without added slip):-	358x493mm
	scale:-	1 to 230000 ? (1 to 228681 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
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