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item:- Armitt Library :
ALMC2008.14.102
image:- ©
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menu with map squares and placename index
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Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand
Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter
Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published
1819.
There are vignette views of Rydal old hall, Windermere
Island House, Dove's nest, and Low-wood Inn. Thomas West's
and Peter Crosthwaite's stations are marked.
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Crosthwaite 1783-94
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map feature:-
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vignettes & compass rose & up is W & scale line
& rivers & lakes & depth soundings &
settlements & roads
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inscription:-
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printed upper midde
An Accurate MAP of of the Grand Lake of WINDERMERE, being
the largest in ENGLAND, situate in / WESTMORLAND and
LANCASHIRE
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inscription:-
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printed bottom right and centre
Engrav'd by H. Ashby. / London, Published as the Act
directs 16th June 1783. Republished with additions as the
Act directs 1 Decr. 1788, Republished again with other
additions May the 1st. 1794, and Sold by Peter Crosthwaite
the Author at his Museum Keswick / Republished with other
additions March 20 1819.
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scale line:-
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1 mile = 51.2 mm
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wxh, sheet:-
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62x23cm
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wxh, map:-
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594x213mm
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scale:-
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1 to 31000 ? (1 to 31433 from scale line assuming a statute
mile)
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