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item:- Kendal Library : Map
79
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Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale
about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? engraved by
J Bye, published by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street,
London, 1806.
Plate 18 in Laurie and Whittle's New Traveller's Companion,
1806.
The main road relevant to Westmorland, Cumberland etc, now
Cumbria is - from the south through Lancaster, Lancashire;
through Burton, Kendal, Shap, Westmorland; then Penrith to
Carlisle, Cumberland.
Note that the 'Roads to the Lakes' begin on plate 16 - from
Hicks's Hall, Middlesex to Leicester, continued on plate 17
- to Chorley, Lancashire, and is only relevant to Cumbria
from plate 18.
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Laurie and Whittle 1806
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map feature:-
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north point & scale line & up is NW & sea plain
& coast line & foreshore sands (shown by coast form
lines) & rivers & lakes & county &
settlements & roads & sands roads & distances
from London & canals & shipping routes
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inscription:-
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printed top border
Completion of the Roads to the LAKES, with Roads to
Whitehaven, ... Workington, Maryport and CARLISLE (by
Lancaster)
plate 18
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inscription:-
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printed lower border
ROADS MEASURED FROM HICKS'S HALL.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right, centre
J. Bye sculpt. / Published Feby. 12th. 1806, by LAURIE &
WHITTLE, No.53, Fleet Street, London.
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inscription:-
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printed with sacle line
Sacle / Miles
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scale line:-
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15+5 miles = 49.9 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 650000 ? (1 to 645028 from scale line assuming a
statute mile)
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wxh, sheet:-
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26.5x32cm
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wxh, map:-
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252x301mm
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