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Carlisle Library : Map 159

Map, Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by J and C Walker, about 1837, published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Etc, Paternoster Row, London, edn about 1860s?
The railways shown are - 'Caledonian Railway'; Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway' open 1848; Solway Junction Rwy 1869-70; Border Union Rwy 1861; 'Carlisle & Newcastle' 1836; Alston branch 1852; 'Maryport and Carlisle Railway' 1840-45; 'Port Carlisle Railway' 1854; 'Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway' 1857; 'Midland Railway' ie Settle and Carlisle, 1876; 'Lancaster and Carlisle Railway' 1846; 'North Western Rail.' ie Low Gill and Ingleton branch, open 1859?; Eden Valley Railway 1862; Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Rwy 1864-65; Cleator and Workington Junction Rwy 1879; Whitehaven Junction Rwy 1846-47; 'Whitehaven Junction Rail.' 1849-55; Coniston Rwy 1859-60; Ravengalss and Eskdale Rwy 1875-76; 'Furness Rail'. 1846-54; Lakeside branch 1869; Ulverstone and Lancaster Rwy 1857; Kendal and Windermere Rwy 1846; 'Ry. to Bowes', ie South Durham and Lancashire Union Rwy, 1861.
   Walker 1837
map feature:- plain cartouche & table of symbols & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & electoral data & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads & distances from London & canals & railways
inscription:- printed plain cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND / BY J. & C. WALKER
inscription:- printed bottom
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Co. Paternoster Row, London.
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles 69.1 = 1 Degree
scale line:- 16+1 miles = 91.4 mm
scale:- 1 to 300000 ? (1 to 299330 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 36x44.5cm
wxh, map:- 320x394mm