Pigot 1826
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item:- Carlisle Library : Map 153 |
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 7
miles to 1 inch, by James Pigot and Co, 1826-27, published
by Isaac Slater, Fleet Street, London, and Fountain Street,
Manchester, about 1845?
The map has a vignette of Carlisle Cathedral. Railways have been added to the original map - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Caledonian Railway; Maryport and Carlisle Railway 1840-45; Whitehaven Junction Railway 1846-47; Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway 1849-55; Furness Railway 1846-54; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway 1846; Kendal and Windermere Railway 1846. The imprint has clearly been altered to replace Pigot by Slater. |
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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 & woods & forests & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & table of wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London & sands roads & canals & railways & electoral data | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, top centre
CUMBERLAND. fancy font |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom centre and right
Published by I. Slater, Fleet Street, London & Fountain St. Manchester. / Engraved on Steel by I. Slater, Manchester |
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| inscription:- |
printed above and after scale line
SCALE / Miles |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 36.8 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 440000 ? (1 to 437322 from scale line assuming a statute mile) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 30x40.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 227x350mm | |