button to main menu Lake District of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire

map type:-
Black 1850s map
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Map, Lake District of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by S Hall, Bury Street, Bloomsbury, London, published by A and C Black, Edinburgh, 1850s.
Perhaps used in an edition of Black's Guide to the Lakes?
The railways shown are - Lancaster and Carlisle Railway open 1846, Kendal and Windermere Railway open 1846, Cockermouth and Workington Railway open 1847, Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway open 1850-55, Furness Railway open 1840s.
(JandMN (163))
map feature:- up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & canals & railways
inscription:- printed lower left
THE / LAKE DISTRICT / OF / CUMBERLAND, / WESTMORLAND & / LANCASHIRE.
inscription:- printed bottom
left, right, centre
wxh, sheet:- 23x18cm
wxh, map:- 188x147mm
inscription:- printed above scale line
Statute Miles 69.1=1 Degree.
scale line:- 6 miles = 29.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 330000 ? (1 to 332968 from scale line)
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sources:- JandMN Collection

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