Ogilby's Roads from Kendal & Cockermouth to Egremont & Carlisle Date of Publication_1642 then Deputy PR Officer for

then Deputy PR Officer for Liverpool City Council

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Ogilby's Roads from Kendal & Cockermouth to Egremont & Carlisle Date of Publication_1642 then Deputy PR Officer forThousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilbys pioneering road atlas, the Britannia. This sheet shows the roads between the Cumbrian towns of Kendal and Cockermouth, and Egremont and Carlisle. Ogilby showed smaller towns in detail for the first time, and it was largely thanks to his influence that the Statute Mile was set at 1760 yards. Ogilby devised the project late in life. Ogilbys modern biographer, Alan Ereira, explores Ogilby's