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Carlisle Library : Map 155

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, published by Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, London, about 1860s.
The map, first published 1833, is probably from the Travelling County Atlas or the New County Atlas by Sidney Hall, as engraved uptodate for the 1840s but with manuscript additions, coloured railways to the 1860s. Notice that the canal from Carlisle to Bowness is still shown, not yet altered to a railway.
The railways shown are - Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, open 1836; Maryport and Carlisle Railway, open 1840-45; Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, open 1846; Whitehaven Junction Railway, open 1846-47; Caledonian Railway, open 1847; Cockermouth and Workington Railway, open 1847; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, open 1848; Alston branch railway, open 1852; Port Carlisle Dock and Railway, open 1854; part of the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway, open 1856 onwards; Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, open 1857; Border Union Railway, open 1861;
   Hall 1833
map feature:- plain cartouche & north point & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & table of wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & railways & canals
inscription:- printed title cartouche etc, lower right
CUMBERLAND. / ENGRAVED BY SIDY. HALL.
inscription:- printed bottom
London, Published by Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly.
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles.
scale line:- 16 miles = 52.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 500000 ? (1 to 495183 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 20.5x27cm
wxh, map:- 188x248mm