button to main menu England West Coast sheet XI

map type:-
Hydrographic Office 1850s onwards
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Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office.
No detail description of a continuing supply of charts is attempted. Do note that the Admiralty charts have a force in maritime law quite unlike the status of OS land maps.
(example Carlisle Library (39))
map feature:- compass rose & up is N & magnetic deviation & lat and long scales & sea plain & depth soundings & depth contours & tidal flows & sandbanks & foreshore sands & coast line & lighthouses & coast views & leading lines & sea marks & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & railways
inscription:- printed upper right
ENGLAND / WEST COAST / SHEET XI / FLEETWOOD TO THE FIRTH OF SOLWAY / SURVEYED BY CAPTN. H. DENHAM AND COMMR. G. WILLIAMS. / 1846
inscription:- printed bottom
Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrogaphic Office of the Admiralty Augt. 9th. 1850. / ... / Corrections to 1858.
inscription:- printed bottom right
J. & C. Walker Sculpt.
wxh, map:- 488x617mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 149476 from 0.5d latitude = 372.2 mm)
sources:- Carlisle Library Maps
JandMN Collection

items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   Carlisle Library : Map 93 -- chart -- England West Coast sheet XI -- Fleetwood to the Firth of Solway
   Carlisle Library : Map 94 -- chart -- England West Coast sheet XII -- Firth of Solway
   JandMN (185) -- chart -- Firth of Solway
   private collection (216) -- chart (1826) -- Burrow Head to Liverpool
   private collection (217) -- chart (1979) -- East Cost of Ireland with the Irish Sea ...
   private collection (218) -- chart (2013) -- Saint Bees Head to Silloth