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Carlisle Library : Map 175

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
First included in an edition of Camden's Britannia; this edition included in the New British Atlas, published by John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1805.
   Cary 1789
map feature:- compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (Longitude West from London) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads & road distances & canals
inscription:- printed lower right
A / MAP / of / WESTMORELAND / from the best / AUTHORITIES. / Published by John Stockdale Piccadilly 26th. March 1805. / Engraved by J. Cary.
inscription:- printed left
REFERENCES to the WARDS / 1. East Ward / 2. West Ward / 3. Kendal Ward / 4. Lonsdale Ward
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 44.6m W
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale of Statue Miles 69 1/4 to a Degree of Latitude
scale line:- 8 miles = 84.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 54.5x42cm
wxh, map:- 486x396mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 153089 from scale line)