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Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, derived from Thomas West's map, 1784, perhaps published London, about 1800s-10s.
Plate 9 from a book.
   West 1784 map
map feature:- north point & up is W & scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & sands roads
inscription:- printed centre left
A MAP OF THE LAKES / IN / Cumberland, Westmorland / AND / LANCASHIRE.
scale line:- 5 miles = 35.8 mm
wxh, sheet:- 35x20.5cm
wxh, map:- 335x182mm
scale:- 1 to 220000 ? (1 to 224769 from scale line assuming a statute mile)