Cumberland-Keswick-1857 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19910

Map Date:

? 1857

Repository reference:

Carlisle Public Library, Local Studies, C470

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Keswick

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY265235

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 2622

Map title:

'Plan of Keswick'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Map of Keswick and its neighbourhood', 1:21,120, published with 'The district of the Lakes by J. Otley', 1:253,440, in cover 'Maps of the Lake District and Keswick valley from the old original guide'. Undated, but pasted to the Lakes map (which shows Ulverston-Carnforth railway [opened 1857] only as a hand-coloured line) is a sheet with testimonials to Otley's Old Original Guide to the English Lakes, dated August 1857.

Scale:

1:8448

Map-maker:

G. Watson junr, surveyor, Kewswick [? author], W. Banks, Edinburgh [eng], Jon. Otley, Keswick [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

8.8 x 14.0 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Carlisle Public Library, C.470.

Industry:

misc: Pencil works.

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Retail activity:

limited range: 'Kendal Library', assused to be a bookshop.

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560