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Kendal Library : Map 87

Map, uncoloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695.
The map includes the road network across England and Wales; the routes are similar to those published by John Ogilby, 1675.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, 1695.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- drape cartouche & labelled borders (NORTH / EAST / SOUTH / WEST) & scale lines & lat and long scales (not rectangular) & coast shaded & rivers & relief & hillocks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper right
ENGLAND / By Robt. Morden
inscription:- printed centre right, below scales
Sold by Abel Swale Awnsham / & John Churchil
scale line:- 50 miles = 54.2 mm
scale line:- 50 miles = 47.9 mm
scale line:- 50 miles = 42.9 mm
wxh, sheet:- 45.5x39.5cm
wxh, map:- 423x362mm
scale:- 1 to 1700000 ? (1 to 1664839 from average of scale lines wrongly assuming modern mile)