Map Collection

FA2000.30.23:- 
Map, coloured engraving, Dorsetshire, showing electoral divisions etc, scale about 1 to 370000, about 6 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 Somerset embedded in Dorset.
Plate XXIII 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 left DORSETSHIRE
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 = 240x183mm
scale = 1 to 370000 ? (scale line 15 miles = 65.2mm is 1 to 370248)

MN: 25.2.2002