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map type:-
Gough 1350s-60s
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Reproduction of the Gough Map of Great Britain, reduced size, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875; and a full size line reproduction, with added transcriptions of placenames, 1935.
The map shows a number of settlements in Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, and road routes across the counties; religious houses are an important feature of the map.
The original manuscript map, discovered by Richard Gough, is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
references:- Parsons, E J S & Stenton, Frank, Sir: 1958 & 1996 (reprint): Map of Great Britain circa AD1360 known as the Gough Map: Bodleian Library (Oxford, Oxfordshire):: ISBN 1 85124 041 1

sources:- JandMN Collection
www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/gough_map/

items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   JandMN (33) -- map -- Gough Map of Great Britain
   JandMN (34) -- map -- Gough Map of Great Britain