Bowen 1762
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item:- Kendal Library : Map 29 |
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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about
10 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen, 1762, published by W
Owen, Temple Bar, London, 1763.
Iincluded in General Magazine of Arts and Sciences. |
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Bowen 1762 | |
| map feature:- | baroque cartouche & table of symbols & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection, W from London) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & parks & county & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads & road distances & post roads & electoral data | |
| inscription:- |
printed title cartouche, lower right
WESTMORELAND / Divided into / WARDS, / Containing the / Market Towns, Rivers, / Roads, Distances, &c. / By Eman : Bowen Geogr. / to his late Majesty. |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom
Engrav'd for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences; for W. Owen at Temple Bar 1762. |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
British Statute Miles |
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| scale line:- | 12 miles = 31.0 mm | |
| longitude, Kendal:- | 2d 51m W | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 20x23.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 171x189mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 620000 ? (1 to 622972 from scale line) | |