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map type:-
Rumney 1899 map
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Map, on Pegamoid cloth, Map of The Lake District of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by/for A W Rumney, published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, and Liverpool, 1899.
The uncoloured, except the blue sea and lakes, base map is overprinted with cycling roads coloured to indicate their surface quality. The map is printed on Pegamoid cloth, advertsied as untearable, impervious to water, etc.
map feature:- table of symbols (two - one presumably of the original base map, the other for the overprinting) & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea tinted & coast line & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals
inscription:- printed lower left
MAP OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / OF / CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND / AND / LANCASHIRE.
wxh, folded:- 10x13cm
wxh, sheet:- 38x46.5cm
wxh, map:- 333x412mm
inscription:- printed above scale line
English Miles.
scale line:- 10 miles = 62.0 mm
scale:- 1 to 260000 ? (1 to 259572 from scale line)
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sources:- JandMN Collection

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   JandMN (147_1) -- road map -- Map of The Lake District of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire