| Description | 'A New Map of Durham divided into Wards, exhibiting its Roads, Rivers, Parks, &c', published by John Cary, London, 1831. Although not acknowledged on the map, the geological colouring is after William Smith. Scale-1:c.152,000. Pencil annotations by George Bellas Greenough mainly around the Tyne area. Greenough no.170. Dissected on cloth, 47cm x 53cm. In slip case.
Publisher's title on slip case 'Geological map of Durham: on which are delineated by colours, the courses and width of the strata which occasion the varieties of soils; calculated to elucidate the agriculture of the county, to show the situation of the best materials for building, making roads, constructing canals, &c and pointing out those places where coal and other valuable minerals are likely to be found.' |
| Administrative History | Possibly used as part of the research of the second edition of Greenough's 'Geological Map of England and Wales' (1840). |