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Postlethwaite 1877 map 2
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Map of the Lake District Mining Field, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, 1877.
Included in Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published 1877-1913.
Mines, quarries and railways are shown.
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map feature:- up is N & scale line & table of symbols & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & railways & roads & mines
inscription:- printed upper left
Map / OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / MINING FIELD / SHOWING THE POSITION / OF MINES, QUARRIES, ETC.
inscription:- printed bottom left
W. H. Moss & Sons Ltd. Whitehaven & Workington.
scale line:- 5 miles = 26.5 mm
scale:- 1 to 300000 ? (1 to 303650 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 27.5x32cm
wxh, map:- 254x288mm
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references:- : 1975: Postlethwaite's Mines and Mining in the English Lake District: Moon, Michael (Beckermet, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 904131 10 6

sources:- Armitt Library
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