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Maps, Westmoreland, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? engraved by Pigot and Slater, Manchester, published by Pigot and Co, Manchester and London, about 1835; published 1835-42.
Published in vol.1 of 'A POCKET TOPOGRAPHY AND GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND: WITH HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS, AND DISTANCE, PAROCHIAL, POPULATION, & OTHER Tables. ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES, AND VIGNETTES OF CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES. BY PIGOT & CO. COMPILERS AND PUBLISHERS OF DIRECTORIES FOR THE WHOLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. / LONDON: PIGOT & CO. FLEET-STREET; LONGMAN & CO. AND SHERWOOD & CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONER'S-COURT; AND PIGOT AND SLATER, FOUNTAIN STREET, MANCHESTER. Price, each Volume, 12s. 6d.' 1835.
The accompanying page has an engraving of Holy Trinity Church, Kendal, and a table of distances for the county.
Published in another edition 1842.
(example map Armitt Library : ALMC2000.14.41)
map feature:- title cartouche & north point & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection? the longitude scale jumps 5 minutes across the piece hidden by cartouches) & table of symbols (includes railroads) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & forests & county & settlements & roads (turnpike roads) & canals
inscription:- printed title cartouche, top
WESTMORELAND.
wxh, sheet:- 12.5x19.5cm
wxh, map:- 165x104mm
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Miles.
scale line:- 10 miles = 25.9 mm
scale:- 1 to 620000 ? (1 to 621368 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 55m W (?)
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references:- Pigot and Co: 1835 & 1842: Pocket Topography and Gazetteer of England: Pigot and Co (London and Manchester) & Longman and Co & Sherwood and Co & Simpkin and Marshall & Pigot and Slater
sources:- Chubb 1927 (CCCCLXII)
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.41 -- map -- Westmoreland
   JandMN (335) -- map -- Westmoreland