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Kendal Library : Map 130

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 Simpkin and Marshall, London, by Baines and Newsome, Leeds, and by Wales and Baines, Liverpool, 1829.
For the 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 Simpkin & Marshall, London; Baines & Newsome, Leeds, & Wales & Baines, Liverpool. / W. H. Lizars Sculpt. Edinr. / For Baines's 'Companion to the Lakes.'
inscription:- printed above the scale line
SCALE.
scale line:- 8 miles = 49.0 mm
wxh, sheet:- 29x32.5cm
wxh, map:- 242x295mm
scale:- 1 to 260000 ? (1 to 262750 from the scale line assuming a statute mile)