Otley 1818

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	item:- Kendal Library : Map 150
	Map, hand coloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1818. The map is folded 3x2 panels; on the reverse are 6 panels of text - The Tourist's Guide, distances from place to place; The Keswick Guide, two panels, one day itineraries from Keswick; and two days itineraries from Keswick; The Laker's Guide, itineraries; The Mountain Guide, two panels, what can be seen from Sca Fell, Skiddaw, Helvellyn, and Old Man, Consiton. Actual or proposed railway routes have been added in manuscript by an owner of the map - from the north, through Workington, Whitehaven, St Bees, Ravenglass, turning inland south of Whicham, to Broughton; from Workington to Cockemouth; from Broughton through Kirkby Ireleth to Rampside, with a branch to Barrow; and from a junctiojn near Dalton, through Dalton to Ulverston; from Lancaster through Carnforth, Kendal, off the map, then Shap, Penrith, and north; and a branch from Kendal to about Rayrigg by Windermere lake.
		Otley 1818
	inscription:-	printed title cartouche, lower left The District / of the / LAKES / By J. Otley / KESWICK 1818.
	inscription:-	printed bottom right Engraved by J. & G. Menzies, Edinr.
	scale line:-	10 miles = 61.9 mm
	wxh, sheet:-	27.5x33.5cm
	wxh, map:-	259x318mm
	scale:-	1 to 260000 ? (1 to 259991 from scale line, assuming a statute mile)

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