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Map, A Map of the Roads, Waters etc between Penrith and Keswick, scale about 2 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
Plate 5 from A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire.
The map shows the road from about Stainton to beyond Threlkeld.
   Clarke 1787 map
map feature:- floral cartouche & north point (decorative, plus an iregular grid of N-S, E-W lines to show orientation?) & up is NW (roughly) & scale line & rivers & woods & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower right
A / MAP / of the / ROADS, WATERS &c. / Between / Penrith and Keswick / Surveyed by James Clarke. / Engraved by S. J. Neele 352 Strand London.
inscription:- printed upper right
Plate 5.
inscription:- printed lower centre
Published Feby. 10, 1787, by James Clarke, Penrith.
scale:- 1 to 28000 ?
wxh, sheet:- 87x49cm