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Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version published 1809.
There are vignette views of Rannerdale Knot, Crosthwaite's Museum, Melbreak, Newlands and Buttermere Mountains, and Buttermere Chapel. Peter Crosthwaite's stations are marked.
   Crosthwaite 1783-94
map feature:- vignettes & compass rose & up is SW & scale line & lat and long data & rivers & lakes & depth soundings & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower left
An ACCURATE MAP of BUTTERMERE, CRUMMOCK & LOWES-WATER; SCALE FORCE &C; / ... / Surveyed & Planned by P. Crosthwaite (Proprietor of the Museum at Keswick) in June 1793.
inscription:- printed bottom right and centre
Neele Sculpt. 352 Strand / London, Published as the Act directs, May 7th. 1794 - and Sold by Peter Crosthwaite the Author, at his Museum Keswick. / Republished with farther additions June 20th. 1809.
scale line:- 1 mile = 74.4 mm
wxh, sheet:- 55.5x23.5cm
wxh, map:- 547x214mm
scale:- 1 to 22000 ? (1 to 21631 from scale line assuming a statute mile)