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Kendal Library : Map 75

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789.
Included in Britannia by William Camden, translated by Richard Gough, published by T Payne and Son, Castle Street, St Martin's and G G J and J Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1789.
   Cary 1789
map feature:- compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & woods & parks & county & wards & table of wards & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower right
A / MAP / of / WESTMORELAND / from the best / AUTHORITIES. / Engraved by J. Cary.
inscription:- printed left
REFERENCES to the WARDS / 1. East Ward / 2. West Ward / 3. Kendal Ward / 4. Lonsdale Ward
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Statute Miles 69 1/4 to a Degree of Latitude.
scale line:- 8 miles = 83.8 mm
wxh, sheet:- 52.5x43.5cm
wxh, map:- 485x396mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 153637 from scale line)