Black 1850s map
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Map, uncoloured engraving, Lake District of Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by S Hall, Bury Street, Bloomsbury, London,
published by A and C Black, Edinburgh, 1850s.
Perhaps once zigzag folded and tipped into an edition of Black's Guide to the Lakes? The railways shown are - Lancaster and Carlisle Railway open 1846, Kendal and Windermere Railway open 1846, Cockermouth and Workington Railway open 1847, Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway open 1850-55, Furness Railway open 1840s. |
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Black 1850s map | |
| map feature:- | up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & canals & railways | |
| inscription:- |
printed lower left
THE / LAKE DISTRICT / OF / CUMBERLAND, / WESTMORLAND & / LANCASHIRE. |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom
left, right, centre |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
Statute Miles 69.1=1 Degree. |
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| scale line:- | 6 miles = 29.0 mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 330000 ? (1 to 332968 from scale line) | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 23x18cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 188x147mm | |