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item:- Carlisle Library : Map
288
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Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties
of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective
Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and
Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer,
and John Bowles, London, 1760, edn 1785.
The map has a dedication to Sir James Lowther.
Included in the English Atlas, 1785.
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Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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map feature:-
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plain cartouche & dedication & descriptive text
& table of symbols & up is N & scale line &
lat and long scales (W from London, trapezoidal projection)
& lat and long grid & sea plain & coast form
lines & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief
& hill hachuring & woods & forests & parks
& wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads &
road distances
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inscription:-
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printed baroque cartouche, lower right
A / NEW MAP / of the COUNTIES of / CUMBERLAND and /
WESTMORELAND. / Divided into their respective / WARDS / From
the Best Surveys & Intelligencies / Illustrated wth.
Historical Extracts / relative to Natutal History Pro- /
duce, Trade & Manufavtures. Shewing also / the Rectories &
Vicarages, / With various other / Improvements / 1760.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, Robt.
Sayer, [erasure] in Fleet Street, & John Bowles [erasure] in
Cornhil.
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inscription:-
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printed baroque cartouche, upper left
To the Honble. / Sr. James Lowther / of Lowther / in
WESTMORELAND, Bart. / Lieutenant & Custos Rotulorum / of
Westmoreland / and Lieutenant of CUMBERLAND / This MAP is
humbly Inscrib'd
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inscription:-
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printed above scale line
British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree
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scale line:-
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20 miles = 133.5 mm
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longitude, Kendal:-
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2d 51m W
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scale:-
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1 to 240000 ? (1 to 241100 from scale line wrongly assuming
a statute mile)
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wxh, sheet:-
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52.5x69.5cm
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wxh, map:-
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519x675mm
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