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Land Utilisation Survey 1932-35 		image, button to large


Map series, Land Utilisation Survey series, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, by the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, directed by L Dudley Stamp, London School of Economics, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1932-35.
Maps are coloured in six classes of use - forest and woodland; meadowland and permanent pasture; arable or tilled land; heathland, moorland, commons and rough hill pasture; gardens, allotments, orchards and nurseries; and agriculturally unproductive land.
The map sheets are arranged and numbered the same as the OS 1918 Popular Edition sheets.
The sheets that concern Westmorland, Cumberland, and the parts of Lancashire north of the sands, and of Yorkshire, that became Cumbria are:-
sheet 5 - Solway Firth and River Esk
sheet 6 - Hexham
sheet 8 - Workington and Cockermouth
sheet 9 - Carlisle
sheet 10 - Alston and Weardale
sheet 12 - Keswick and Ambleside
sheet 13 - Kirkby Stephen and Appleby
sheet 18 - Wasdale
sheet 19 - Windermere and Ulverston
sheet 20 - Kirkby Lonsadle and Hawes
sheet 24 - Lancaster and Barrow
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references:- Stamp, L Dudley & Willats, E C: 1935: Land Utilisation Survey of Britain: London School of Economics (London)
sources:- JandMN Collection
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   JandMN (345) -- map (sheet 12) -- Keswick and Ambleside
   JandMN (346) -- map (sheet 19) -- Windermere and Ulverston
   JandMN (347) -- map (sheet 5) -- Solway Firth and River Esk