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OS 1925
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Map, Ordnance Survey Tourist Map of The Lake District, Westmorland, Cumberland etc, One Inch map, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, about 1925; published 1925-38 perhaps later?
(map example JandMN (62))
map feature:- folded & card covers & table of symbols & index map (showing the relationship to Popular Edition one inch sheets 9, 12, and 19) & north point & magnetic deviation (1.1.1937) & up is N & scale lines (miles and kilometres; a vertical scale line is provided as well as the usual horizontal scales, perhaps in case of differential paper shrinkage?) & lat and long scales & index grid (1..12 left to right, A..P top to bottom; the grid size has no obvious relationship to miles or kilometres) & rivers & lakes & depth contours & relief & contours & layer colouring & woods & trees & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & canals & railways
inscription:- printed top left, centre, right
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND / THE LAKE DISTRICT / TOURIST MAP
inscription:- printed cover
G R / Ordnance Survey / Tourist Map of / The LAKE / DISTRICT / Scale : 1 Inch to 1 Mile / DERWENTWATER from SKIDDAW / ELLIS MARTIN / Price Two Shillings & Threepence
view by Ellis Martin; title etc on a scroll of paper; royal coat of arms and cypher
scale line:- 5+1 miles = 154.9 mm
wxh, folded:- 11.5x19cm
wxh, sheet:- 65.5x87cm
wxh, map:- 633x788mm
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sources:- JandMN Collection

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