Pigot 1826
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 150 |
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 7
miles to 1 inch, engraved by Pigot and Son, Fountain Street,
Manchester about 1826-27, published by Pigot and Co, 24
Basing Lane, London, about 1840?
The map has a vignette of Carlisle Cathedral. Included in Pigot and Co's British Atlas of the Counties of England. Two railways are added to the map - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Maryport and Carlisle Railway, open 1840-45. |
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Pigot 1826 | |
| map feature:- | plain cartouche & vignettes & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (Longitude West from London) & table of symbols & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & forests & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & table of wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & canals & railways | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, upper centre
CUMBERLAND fancy font |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom centre and right
Published by Pigot & Co. 24 Basing Lane, London & Fountain St. Manchester. / Engraved on Steel by Pigot & Son. Manchester |
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printed with scale line
SCALE / Miles |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 36.1 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 450000 ? (1 to 445802 from scale line assuming a statute mile) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 22.5x39.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 223x350mm | |