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Map, colour lithograph, Durham, 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 ? in the Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles.
Version of this map were published from 1850s to 1930s.
   Dispatch 1863
map feature:- up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal projection) & index grid (1..10, A..N) & table of symbols & table of data (population) & sea tinted & coast tinted & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & electoral data & settlements & roads & canals & railways
inscription:- printed upper right
DURHAM / REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY / Divided into 5 miles squares
inscription:- printed above scale line
British Statute Miles
scale line:- 10+1 miles = 90.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 200000 ? (1 to 196698 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 53x34cm
wxh, map:- 458x311mm