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Carlisle Library : Map 204

Map, hand coloured lithograph, Cumberland and Westmorland, 2 sheets, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by Edward Weller, 1863, perhaps published 1880s.
Plates 9, north, and 10, south - Lake District, perhaps from The Large Scale Ordnance Atlas, 1884.
There is a note about railway stations: '... The official names of Railway Stations are all engraved in a special character, thus, Clayton; except where indicated by the name of the town being in bold letters and identicial with the name of the station.'
   Dispatch 1863
map feature:- up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea tinted & sandbanks & coast line & foreshore sands & headlands & harbours & lighthouses & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks & county & electoral data & settlements & roads & canals & railways
inscription:- printed upper left, plate 9
CUMBERLAND / AND / WESTMORLAND / REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY / BY EDWD. WELLER, F.R.G.S. / Divided into 5 mile squares
inscription:- printed plate 9
(CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND, NORTH SHEET.)
inscription:- printed plate 10
THE LAKE DISTRICT (CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND, SOUTH SHEET.)
inscription:- printed with scale line
British Statute Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 75.2 mm
scale:- 1 to 210000 ? (from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 52x34.5cm
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