OS 1925

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	Map, Tourist Map of The Lake District, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, about 1925. This specimen of the map seems to have been printed about 1938; printer codes bottom left suggest 1938, the magnetic variation is dated 1937.
		OS 1925
	map feature:-	folded & card cover & table of symbols & index map (showing the relationship to Popular Edition one inch sheets 9, 12, and 19) & north point & magnetic deviation (1.1.1937) & up is N & scale lines (miles and kilometres; a vertical scale line is provided as well as the usual horizontal scales, perhaps in case of differential paper shrinkage?) & lat and long scales & index grid (1..12 left to right, A..P top to bottom; the grid size has no obvious relationship to miles or kilometres) & rivers & lakes & depth contours & relief & contours & layer colouring & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & canals & railways
	inscription:-	printed top left, centre, right ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND / THE LAKE DISTRICT / TOURIST MAP
	inscription:-	printed cover G R / Ordnance Survey / Tourist Map of / The LAKE / DISTRICT / Scale : 1 Inch to 1 Mile / DERWENTWATER from SKIDDAW / ELLIS MARTIN / Price Two Shillings & Threepence view by Ellis Martin; title etc on a scroll of paper; royal coat of arms and cypher
	inscription:-	printed bottom (various posiitons) M.37 R.36. 10038 / First Published by the Director General, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1925, with periodical corrected reprint. / ... Contours in Lakes sketched from Soundings by Hugh Roberts Mill, DSc, and Edward Heawood, MA.
	inscription:-	printed back cover Published by authority / of the Ministry of / Agriculture & Fisheries. strapwork cartouche
	scale line:-	5+1 miles = 154.9 mm
	scale:-	1 to 63360 ? (nominal)
	wxh, folded:-	11.5x19cm
	wxh, sheet:-	65.5x87cm
	wxh, map:-	633x788mm

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