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Kendal Library : Map 149

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, published by Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, London, about 1860s.
The map, first published 1833, has added railways suggesting a date about the 1850s? The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and Kendal and Windermere Railway are shown; so are parts of the Eden Valley Railway, South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, and Settle and Carlisle Railway, but not as they were built, and labelled in one place 'Northern Counties Union Ry.'.
   Hall 1833
map feature:- plain cartouche & north point & scale line & lat and long scales & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & wards (hundreds) & table of wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & railways & canals
inscription:- printed in and below title cartouche, upper left
WESTMORELAND. / ...
inscription:- printed with scale line
English Miles.
scale line:- 10 miles = 49.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 330000 ? (1 to 328438 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 25.5x21cm
wxh, map:- 248x193mm