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Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Charles Fowler, Leeds, engraved by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, published by W Wales and Co, Liverpool,Lancashire, 1829.
Tipped in as the frontispiece to a Companion to the Lakes by Sir Edward Baines.
   Baines 1829 map
map feature:- up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & table of heights & woods & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & sands roads & canals
inscription:- printed title
MAP OF THE LAKES / OF / Westmoreland, Cumberland / AND / LANCASHIRE. / Chs. Fowler, Surveyor, Leeds / 1829.
inscription:- printed bottom left, right, centre
Published by W. Wales & Co. Liverpool. / W. H. Lizars Sculpt. Edinr. / For Baines's 'Companion to the Lakes.'
inscription:- printed above the scale line
SCALE.
scale line:- 8 miles = 49.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 26.5x33cm
wxh, map:- 243x294mm
scale:- 1 to 260000 ? (1 to 262215 from the scale line assuming a statute mile)