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Armitt Library : 1959.191.1
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Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1741.
Plate 41, published in Chorographia Britanniae or A Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales, etc.
The engraving is an early state with few places and labels.
   Badeslade 1742
map feature:- compass rose & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed top
A Map of WESTMORLAND North from London
inscription:- printed bottom left, centre, and right
T. Badeslade delin. / Publish'd by the Proprietors T. Badeslade & W H Toms Septr. 29th. 1741. / W. H. Toms Sculpt
scale line:- 10 miles = 25.9 mm
wxh, sheet:- 18.5x23cm
wxh, plate:- 154x202mm
wxh, map:- 149x142mm
scale:- 1 to 620000 ? (1 to 621368 from scale line)