button to main menu Plan of the Lancaster Canal

map type:-
Unknown 1790s

Map, A Plan of the Lancaster Canal, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, perhaps published 1790s.
The map delineates an incomplete canal - Remarks, the parts executed and navigable are coloured red, the whole is described in an itinerary from Kendal to a possible link to the Bridgewater Canal.
(example Kendal Library : Map 109)
map feature:- north point & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & settlements & roads (few) & canals & itineraries
inscription:- printed upper centre
A PLAN of the LANCASTER CANAL
inscription:- watermarked:
J WHATMAN / 1794
wxh, sheet:- 24x36.5cm
wxh, map:- 224x343mm
inscription:- printed with scale line
Statute Miles
scale line:- 20 miles = 97.1 mm
scale:- 1 to 330000 ? (1 to 331482 from scale line)
sources:- Kendal Library Maps

items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   Kendal Library : Map 109 -- canal map -- Plan of the Lancaster Canal