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map type:-
Prior 1874 map 1
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Map, Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
Tipped in as frontispiece to A Sail on Winander Mere, by Herman Prior,
There are six vignette scenes around the map - Wray Castle; Ferry Hotel; Crown Hotel Bowness; Low Wood Hotel; Bowness; and Windermere Hotel.
Notice the Kendal and Windermere Railway, called the London & N.W. Railway, and the Lakeside branch railway, called the Midland Railway.
(example private collection (133_1))
map feature:- vignettes & north point & up is N & scale line & rivers & lakes & woods & trees & county (the boundary is drawn across the lake) & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed top
WINANDER MERE.
inscription:- printed bottom
Published by J. Garnett, Windermere.
wxh, page:- 12x17cm
inscription:- printed with scale line
Miles
scale line:- 5 miles = 53.1 mm
scale:- 1 to 150000 ? (1 to 151539 from scale line)
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sources:- private collection

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