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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
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Map, hand coloured engraving, 4 sheets mounted together,
Plan of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1.25 inches
to 1 mile, by T Hodgson, engraved by W R Gardner, Harpur
Street, London, published by Thomas Hodgson, Lancaster, and
perhaps by C Smith, 172 Strand, London,1828.
There are vignette views - Appleby Castle from the SE drawn
by J Henderson, Lowther Castle from the NW drawn by De Witt.
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Hodgson 1828
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map feature:-
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slip case & sectioned for folding & mounted &
folded (6x8) & dedication (sort of) & table of
symbols & picture frame border (greek key design) &
compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and
long scales & coast form lines & rivers &
bridges & lakes & relief & hill hachuring &
table of heights (HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS, Above Low Water - eg
Helvellyn Patterdale 3055 Feet, Ordnce. Sur. 3070 Feet
Barometer Latitude 54 31 43 Long. W 3 0 21) & woods
& forests & parks & county & wards &
parishes & settlements & roads & turnpike roads
& road distances & descriptive text (lists of towns,
parishes, wards, baronies - eg Barony of Kendal - KENDAL
WARD - KENDAL PARISH - Long Sleddale Township; and depths of
lakes, populations, areas, poor rates) & vignettes
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inscription:-
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printed upper left
PLAN of the COUNTY / OF / WESTMORLAND, / describing
minutely the Boundaries of / WARDS, PARISHES, & TOWNSHIPS, /
THE COURSES OF Turnpike, Carriage, Bridle, & Roman Roads,
RIVERS & BROOKS, / also the Positions of / Towns, Villages,
/ SEATS & FARM HOUSES, COMMONS, PARKS, WOODS, / Lakes, /
MOUNTAINS, / &c. &c.// FROM AN / Actual Personal Survey, /
Taken during the Years 1823, 4 & 5. / BY / T. Hodgson,
Surveyor, / LANCASTER. // Engraved & Printed by / W. R.
GARDNER, / Harpur Street, London.
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inscription:-
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printed almost a dedication
To Subscribers, &c. / The Author in issuing his elaborate
Survey of this / County feels much pleasure in explaining
his deep sense of the / Kindness of those Gentlemen who
afforded him occasional / information during its progress;
and he trusts, at the comple- / tion of an undertaking of so
arduous a character, being / his individual performance
solely, that its / accuracy and minuteness will ensure him
the ap- / probabtion of his Patrons & Subscribers, whose /
distiguished support from the commencement / has given the
most gratifying satisfaction / to his Obliged / THOs.
HODGSON. / Lancaster, 1828.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
PUBLISHED OCTR. 6TH. BY T. HODGSON. SURVEYOR, LANCASTER &
SOLD BY C. SMITH, 172, STRAND, LONDON.
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inscription:-
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printed caption to vignette
From the S.E. / APPLEBY CASTLE / The Seat of the Earl of
Thanet, from a drawing by J. Henderson, engraved for
HODGSON'S MAP OF WESTMORLAND.
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inscription:-
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printed cation to vignette
From the N.W. / LOWTHER CASTLE, The Seat of the Earl of
Lonsdale. From a drawing by De Witt presented to the Author
by the Family, MAP OF WESTMORLAND.to be engraved for
HODGSON'S A
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inscription:-
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printed with scale line
SCALE OF STATUTE MILES.
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scale line:-
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5+1 miles = 199.3 mm
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wxhxd, slip case:-
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19x28x2cm
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wxh, folded:-
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27x17.5cm
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wxh, sheet:-
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160x137cm (?)
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wxh, map, excluding gaps:-
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1572x1358mm (?)
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scale:-
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1 to 48000 ? (1 to 48450 from scale line, assuming )
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