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Westmorland 1835

Introduction - Description - Locations - Surrounding counties - Maps - Home page

Introduction

Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Westmorland in 1835, a tactile map with braille lettering, and a key to the tactile map. This page explains and describes the maps. Towns shown are parliamentary boroughs and polling places in 1835. The Description section says what is on the map. The Locations section gives locations within the county. The page Westmorland and Parliament 1835 gives information on the parliamentary status of places. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Westmorland have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county boundary is shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code WES is in large letters in the top left corner of the map. Towns are large dots, with the town name nearby, spelt out in full. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom left corner. Westmorland is mainly an inland county, with an estuary from Morecambe Bay at its south-west. It is about 40 miles east to west by about 30 miles north to south.

Locations

Town names are spelt out in full, not abbreviated

Ambleside - west of county, half way up

Appleby - north of county, half way across

Kendal - southern part of county

Kirby Lonsdale - south of county, by county boundary

Kirby Stephen - east of county, half way up

Shap - centre of county

Surrounding counties

Names of surrounding counties surrounding Westmorland are not shown on the map. It is bounded on the north-west and north by Cumberland, north east by Durham, east by Yorkshire, and south and south west by Lancashire and Morecambe Bay. Note again that these are 1835 boundaries, not modern ones.

Maps

Graphic of Tactile map with braille names (pdf file)

Instructions for making a tactile map

Large print map (pdf file)

A single copy of this page can be made by or for any individual user. If you wish to make multiple copies or modifications, please contact David Hawgood - email david at hawgood dot com - I will normally give permission but I wish to know what use is being made of the maps. I also welcome comments.