Dispatch 1863
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Map, colour lithograph, Lancashire N, scale about 3 miles
to 1 inch, first drawn by Edward Weller for the Weekly
Dispatch newspaper, 1856-62, published by G W Bacon, Bacon's
Geographical Establishment, London, 1895-97.
Plate 23 in the Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles. The sheet shows the Lancashire from about Garstang northward, including Lancashire North of the Sands; railways are a prominent feature. Version of this map were published from 1850s to 1930s. |
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Dispatch 1863 | |
| map feature:- | up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal projection) & index grid (1..11, A..G) & table of symbols & table of data (population) & sea tinted & coast tinted & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & electoral data & settlements & roads & canals & railways | |
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LANCASHIRE / REVISED THROUGHOUT BY THE NEW ORDNANCE SURVEY / Divided into 5 miles squares |
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LANCASHIRE. N.23 |
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Bacon's Geographical Establishment |
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Scale of English Miles |
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| scale line:- | 15 miles = 125.7 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 190000 ? (1 to 192046 from scale line) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 52x34.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 461x320mm | |