Baker 1802

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	map type:- Baker 1802
	Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802. Published in 'THE IMPERIAL GUIDE, WITH PICTURESQUE PLANS OF THE GREAT POST ROADS, CONTAINING MINIATURE LIKENESSES, ENGRAVED FROM REAL SKETCHES, OF THE CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, SEAS, ISLANDS, MOUNTAINS, PUBLIC EDIFICES, AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, SITUATED IN AND NEAR SUCH THOROUGHFARES. ALSO, A NEW LETTER PRESS DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE CELEBRATED SCENERY AND LOCAL EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SUBJECTS, BIOGRAPHICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL ANECDOTES; AND ALL THE Important Illustrations that could be attained by the assiduous Investigation and Survey. BY J. BAKER, AUTHOR OF THE PICTURESQUE GUIDE THROUGH SOUTH WALES AND THE MARCHES. / Our Posey is as a Gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished - SHAKESPEARE. / LONDON: PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, Dean Street, Fetter Lane, AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW; WHITE, FLEET STREET; OTRIDGE, STRAND; RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; TAYLOR, HOLBORN; RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; ROBSON, AND CARPENTER, BOND STREET. 1802.' The map opposite p.25 includes from Bolton to Carnforth, branching through Yealands and Milthorp, or through Burton and Crooklands, to join at Kendal, a branch off to Haweswater (which should perhaps be Windermere), the main road continuing through Shap to Penrith, and on to Carlisle.
	references:-	Baker, J: 1802: Imperial Guide with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads, containing Miniature Likenesses: (London)
	sources:-	David Webb Collection Fordham 1924
	items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
		private collection (3) -- road map

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