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Kendal Library : Map 82

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, 1695.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales & 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 with scale line
Scale of Miles / Great / Middle / Small
scale line:- 8 miles = 80.0 mm
scale line:- 8 miles = 73.6 mm
scale line:- 8 miles = 68.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 46.5x38.5cm
wxh, map:- 419x360mm
scale:- 1 to 170000 ? (1 to 174219 average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile)