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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.
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(example Carlisle Library (39))
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map feature:-
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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
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inscription:-
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printed upper right
ENGLAND / WEST COAST / SHEET XI / FLEETWOOD TO THE FIRTH
OF SOLWAY / SURVEYED BY CAPTN. H. DENHAM AND COMMR. G.
WILLIAMS. / 1846
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
Published according to Act of Parliament at the
Hydrogaphic Office of the Admiralty Augt. 9th. 1850. / ... /
Corrections to 1858.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right
J. & C. Walker Sculpt.
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wxh, map:-
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488x617mm
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scale:-
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1 to 150000 ? (1 to 149476 from 0.5d latitude = 372.2 mm)
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sources:-
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Carlisle Library Maps
JandMN Collection
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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Carlisle Library : Map 93
-- chart -- England West Coast sheet XI -- Fleetwood to the
Firth of Solway
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Carlisle Library : Map 94
-- chart -- England West Coast sheet XII -- Firth of Solway
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JandMN (185)
-- chart -- Firth of Solway
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private collection (216)
-- chart (1826) -- Burrow Head to Liverpool
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private collection (217)
-- chart (1979) -- East Cost of Ireland with the Irish Sea
...
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private collection (218)
-- chart (2013) -- Saint Bees Head to Silloth
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