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Railway map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District and the West Cumberland and West Coast Railways, scale about 6 miles to 1 inch, by ?John Linton, engraved by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1852.
Tipped in at the back of A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
   Linton 1852 map
map feature:- folded (4x5, zigzag up, zigzag in) & north point & up is NW & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed lower right
MAP OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / AND THE / West Cumberland and West Coast / RAILWAYS / shewing their connections with / BELFAST AND THE NORTH / as well as with / YORKSHIRE / and the / SOUTH OF ENGLAND.
inscription:- printed bottom right
Engd. by W. H. Lizars, Edinr.
scale line:- 25 miles = 104.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 36x51.5cm
wxh, map:- 350x488mm
scale:- 1 to 390000 ? (1 to 386490 from scale line)
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