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Map, uncoloured engraving, Lancashire, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Moule, published by George Virtue, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London, 1836, edn about 1846?
Included in Moule's English Counties or The English Counties Delineated.
There are coats of arms; a vignette scene shows Nelson's Monument, Liverpool.
Numerous railways are shown, in the Cumbria area are - The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Kendal and Windermere Railway, and Furness Railway from Broughton to Piel, all clearly engraved over an existing map.
   Moule 1836
map feature:- decorative border & plain cartouche & coat of arms & vignettes & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & hundreds & table of hundreds & settlements & roads & railways
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper centre
LANCASHIRE.
inscription:- printed with scale line
Scale of Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 30.4 mm
wxh, sheet:- 21.5x26.5cm
wxh, map (badly trimmed):- 20x26.5cm
scale:- 1 to 530000 ? (1 to 529389 from scale line)