A New Improved Map of Cornwall from the Best Surveys & Intellingences Divided into its Hundreds : Shewing the several Roads and true Measured Distances between Town & Town Also the Rectories and Vicarages the Parks & Seats of the Nobility & Gentry with other useful Particulars Regulated By Astronomical Observations /
Kitchin, Thomas,1718-1784.
Hinton, J.
[London]  : J.Hinton, at the Kings Arms in St Pauls Church Yard,
1750.
Relief shown pictorially. County subdivisions outlined in colour.
In the top left hand corner, title in a cartouche, with an engraving illustrating the resources of Cornwall : three characters : a soldier sitting on a chest, a woodsman and a farmer. A basket, a scythe, an anchor, a dog, a lamp, a sheaf of wheat. A flock of birds overhead. A tower in ruins in the back.
At the top of the map, a dedication in a cartouche with the coat of arms : "To the Noble and Right Honble. Richard Lord Edgecumb, his majesty's Lieutenant and Rollkeeper for the County of Cornwall, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, This Map is Dedicated by his Lordship's most Obedt. humble. Servt. Thos. Kitchin"
On the top left corner of the map, two lists : "Earls and Dukes of Cornwall", from 1068 to 1727 ; and "Seats of Nobility Gentry &c."
Publisher's address at the bottom of the map.
In the bottom right hand corner : a key intitled "Explanation".
Inset : "The Isles of Scilly" beneath the title cartouche and illustration. A line underneath : "These Isles being drawn to the same scale shew the true Proportion and Distance they bear with the rest of the County".
Several places around the county have small inputs of text highlighting local historical facts.
North up. Marginal grid. Longitude from London. Scale indicator : "British Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a degree"[=8.9 cm].
Later editions in 1760, 1767, 1775, 1785. Other editions of this map appear in "The Large English Atlas" of various dates.