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item:-
private collection
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Map, A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie
Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James
Clarke, engraved by Neele, 352 Strand, published by James
Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
Plate 8 in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire.
The maps has a north point with a fleur de lys for North
marking the west point! and is, in a sense, up the wrong
way.
The map is printed on two sheets of paper pasted together
and then folded into the book.
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map feature:-
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monumental cartouche & north point (decorative, plus an
irregular grid of N-S, E-W lines to show orientation? the
North is the west point) & up is SW (roughly) &
scale line & rivers & lakes & woods & county
& settlements & roads
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, lower left
A / MAP / of / BROADWATER, / and its / ENVIRONS. /
Surveyed by James Clarke.
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inscription:-
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printed upper right
Plate 8.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom left
Published Feby. 10th. 1787, by James Clarke, Penrith.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right
Neele sculpt. 352 Strand.
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scale line:-
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70 chains = 142.5 mm
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map type:-
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Clarke 1787 map (Bas)
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scale:-
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1 to 9900 ? (1 to 9882 from scale line)
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wxh, sheet (pasted):-
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82.5x50cm
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wxh, folded:-
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22x31cm
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wxh, map:-
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774x466mm
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Detail map analysis (NB jumps out of current
navigation)
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General notes
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Map, series issued in a guide book, A Survey of the Lakes
of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by James Clarke,
Penrith, Cumberland, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand,
London, published 1787-89; and in Plans of the Lakes ...
1793.
There are 9 maps:-
plate 1. A Map of the Town of Penrith and Country Adjacent.
plate 2. A Map of the Town of Penrith in the County of
Cumberland.
plate 3. A Map of the Roads between Penrith and Ullswater,
scale about 10 ins to 1 mile; shows the River Eamont from
Pooley Bridge for about 4 miles NE towards Penrith, and the
country and roads either side.
plate 4. A Map of the Lake Ullswater and its Environs, scale
about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
plate 5. A Map of the Roads, Waters &c between Penrith and
Keswick, scale about 2 ins to 1 mile; shows the road from
about Stainton to beyond Threlkeld.
plate 6. A Map of Derwentwater and its Environs.
plate 7. A Map of the Roads etc. between Keswick and
Broadwater.
plate 8. A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie
Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
plate 9. A Map of the Roads Lakes &c between Keswick and
Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile; shows the road
from about Castlerigg to the edge of Ambleside, past
Thirlmere Lake, Grasmere water, and Rydal Water.
plate 10. A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake
Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1
mile.
plate 11. A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake
Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1
mile.
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