APPENDIX IV - White 2 - Cumberland & Westmorland 

Title page from UoL SC copy (source unknown)

Extended title: History, directory, and gazetteer, of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, : with that part of the Lake District in Lancashire, forming the lordships of Furness and Cartmel: illustrated by maps and tables. And containing a descriptive and geological view of the lakes, tarns, cataracts, rivers, mountains, fells, rocks, caverns, mines, quarries, antiquities, curiosities, scenery, &c. Including lists of the seats of the nobility, gentry, and clergy, with a variety of commercial, agricultural, & statistical information, and a history of the Diocese of Carlisle. / By Wm. Parson and Wm. White.

The Maps

The title page mentions: Illustrated by Maps and Tables. In addition the price is quoted as follows: Price of the Volume and Atlas, to subscribers, plus: With coloured Maps 3s extra. The Preface, however, lists the contents of this Atlas: Appended to the Volume is a corrected List of all the Banking Establishments in the United Kingdom; and in the accompanying ATLAS are the following ILLUSTRATIONS, viz. two large and neatly engraved MAPS of Cumberland and Westmorland, and three large TABLES; one of which shows the reciprocal Distances of the Principal Towns of Great Britain, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, with an Itineraray of the Mail Routes, &c &c.; another on the same plan contains all the Towns in and near the four most Northern Counties of England, with correct Lists of the Fairs and Markets; and the third is an epitome of the Population of England, from the census of 1821.

The following map was tipped into the directory:

Map, and chart, uncoloured engraving, Map of the District of the Lakes and Courses of the Whitehaven Steam Packets 1829.  Artist´s signature (bottom left): W Gaythorp, Deltr, Whitehaven. Engraver´s signature (bottom right):  Cruchley, Scult [ ] Ludgate Street, London. Imprint: Published by W White and Co, 44 Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire . The steam packet routes go to Liverpool, Douglas, Ramsey, Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries. Tipped in opp.p.275 in the History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, by William Parson and William White, accompanied by text, pp.275-276:- I am grateful to the following website for permission to use this image. I have also taken the liberty of transcribing their own description of the map. This example thought to be in Kendal Library. Another copy with this map seen online at abe books (November 2025) with artist´s and engraver´s signatures more legible. https://www.lakesguides.co.uk Map and print images and raw data © LakesGuides website

The following map is known to have been included in another work but was not included in the collection of maps which accompanied the directory. It is dated 1829. This was tipped in as the frontispiece to a Companion to the Lakes by Sir Edward Baines. 

The second edition Preface includes the note: "The MAP with which the work is embellished will be found strictly faithful having been carefully corrected down to the year 1830. It is also engraved with a clearness and distinctness rarely perceived in maps of mountainous countries which will assist the traveller in consulting it." No wallet of maps to accompany the directory has been noted by the author.

In the Third edition of 1834 the Preface has a note: The volume is sold both with and without the Map and Frontispiece, — of course at different prices ; and the Map is sold separately in case, accompanied with the Itinerary.

Map of the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland and Lancashire, with artist´s signature Charles Fowler, Leeds.1829. Engraver´s signature (bottom right): W H Lizars, Sculpt, Edinh. Imprint (bottom left): Published by W Wales and Co, Liverpool, Lancashire. Below map centrally: For Baines´s Companion to the Lakes. 243 x 294 mm.

I am grateful to the following website for permission to use this image, believed to be at the Armitt Library: 

https://www.lakesguides.co.uk

Map and print images and raw data © LakesGuides website

Location of Copies

Each section includes notes on maps known or thought to have been included, with illustrations where available. 

Each section notes references to maps on Title Page or in Preface

Each section includes a link to an online copy of the work (these are mostly without maps) and a list of institutions holding the work.

White 2
History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland	(1st)	1829	Illustrated by Maps and Tables. Price of the Volume and Atlas, to subscribers, plus: With coloured Maps 3s extra UoL SC Chetham's Library Institute of Historical Research Library Victoria and Albert Museum libraries* Lancaster University Newcastle University Libraries British Library Durham University Library and Collections Leeds Libraries University of Leicester Library  National Trust Libraries  University of Oxford Libraries  Ushaw College

THE MAPS – Maps produced for William White´s county directories

Note 1: Go to the following pages for details of the following maps

Appendix I. Description of the maps in the Directory of Yorkshire (Baines 1);

Appendix II. Description of the maps in the Directory of Lancashire (Baines 2);

Appendix III. Description of the maps in the Directory of Durham and Northumberland (White 1 - William White and William Parson).

White 2 - Cumberland & Westmorland 

White 3 - Nottinghamshire

White 4 - Staffordshire

White 5 - Norfolk

White 6 - Yorkshire (later editions)

White 7 - Lincoln

White 8 - Suffolk

White 9 - Leicestershire with Rutland

White 10 - Essex

White 11 - Devonshire

White 12 - Hampshire with Isle of Wight

White´s city directories

William White´s Directories:

Click the entry below to access relevant page.

1. Early Years - William White and Edward Baines
2. William White & Co.
3. Rivalry and Family Feud
4. Francis White
5. Maps
6. William White Co. - Later Years