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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.20

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales (W from London? slanted rectangular projection) & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
WESTMORLAND / by Robt. Morden
inscription:- printed lower right
Sold by / Abel Swale / Awnsham & / John Churchill
inscription:- printed above and with 3 scale lines
Scale of Miles / Great / Middle / Small
scale line:- 8 miles = 79.2 mm
scale line:- 8 miles = 73.1 mm
scale line:- 8 miles = 67.9 mm
scale:- 1 to 170000 ? (average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 42x37.5cm
wxh, map:- 415x358mm