Map Collection

FA2000.30.108:- 
Map, coloured engraving, North Riding of Yorkshire now North Yorkshire, showing electoral divisions etc, scale about 1 to 600000, about 9 miles to 1 inch, drawn by R Creighton, engraved by J and C Walker, published by Samuel Lewis and Co, 87 Aldersgate Street, London, 1835.
There is a detached part of Durham embedded in Yorkshire.
Plate CVIII in vol.5 of A Topographical Dictionary of England.
map feature:-  compass rose & scale line & table of symbols & rivers & county & electoral data & settlements & roads
inscription:-  printed -on- upper right NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom left Drawn by R. Creighton
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom right Engraved by J&C Walker
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 32x25cm
wxh, map = 234x185mm
scale = 1 to 600000 ? (scale line 15 miles = 40.3mm is 1 to 599011)

MN: 25.2.2002