Black 1841 map
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 80 |
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Map, hand coloured engraving, The Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5
miles to 1 inch, by W Hughes, published by Adam and Charles
Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh, 1841; edn about 1850?
The map is altered from the 1841 edition; there are railways uptodate - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Kendal and Windermere Railway, Whitehaven Junction Railway, Furness Railway, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, and the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, there is a vignette plan of Furness Abbey. |
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Black 1841 map | |
| map feature:- | up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & spot heights & beacons & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & sands roads & railways & canals & vignettes | |
| inscription:- |
printed lower left
THE / LAKE DISTRICT / OF / CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND, / AND / LANCASHIRE. / BY W. HUGHES. |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom right
[Drawn & Engraved by W. Hu ] |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
Scale of Miles : 69.14 to a Degree. |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 73.6 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 220000 ? (1 to 218661 from scale line) | |
| wxh, sheet (backing sheet):- | 38x48cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 353x457mm | |