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Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Miller, 1810, published by William Darton, 58 Holborn Hill, London, 1820.
Included as plate 30 in Darton's New Miniature Atlas.
There is a sheet of descriptive text, pp.30-31, about the county.
   Miller 1810
map feature:- plain cartouche & north point & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (rectangular projection; longitude W from Greenwich) & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & parks & county & wards (perhaps) & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower right
WESTMORELAND
inscription:- printed bottom
London : William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill.
inscription:- printed above scaleline
Scale of Miles
scale line:- 8 miles = 14.2 mm
longitude, Kendal:- 2d 47m W
wxh, sheet:- 15.5x9.5cm
wxh, plate:- 120x82mm
wxh, map:- 105x68mm
scale:- 1 to 870000 ? (1 to 874546 from scale line wrongly assuming a statute mile)
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