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Map, hand coloured engraving, Comberland and Westmorland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, 1576, amended by Philip Lea, London, 1689 to 1693.
The inset map is of Carlile ie Carlisle, Cumberland, on a larger scale, with a gazetteer of places.
   Lea 1689
map feature:- picture frame border & strapwork cartouche & coat of arms & heraldic border & vignettes (roman antiquities) & labelled borders (Latin) & up is N & scale line & sea stippled & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & forests & county & wards (hundreds) & settlements & roads & inset map
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
COMBERLAND / and / WESTMORLAND / Exactly described / by CS Corrected & Amended / with many Additions by P. Lea
inscription:- printed above scale line, centre right
Scala Miliarum
scale line:- 10 miles = 64.2 mm
wxh, sheet:- 57.5x48cm
wxh, map:- 494x391mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 250677 from scale line assuming a statute mile)
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