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Armitt Library : A6632.66
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Road diagram, The North West Road from London to Hollyhead and its branches, published by Thomas Bassett, The George, Fleet Street, and Richard Chiswell, The Rose and Crown, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676.
The road is described by an arrangement of place names; one branch is - through Lancaster and Boulton, Lancashire; then Burton, Kendal, Thrumby, Westmorland; and Penrith, Hesket, to Carlisle, Cumberland.
Included in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by John Speed.
   Speed 1611
inscription:- printed plain cartouche, upper right of centre
The North-West Road / from London to Hollyhead / and its branches to the / principal Towns, with / their computed distances. ..
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