Unknown 1814

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		MAP FEATURES
	title	Printed in a plain cartouche, lower left:- Plan of The LAKES of CUMBERLAND The map is of the Lake District and includes lakes in Westmorland and Lancashire as well.
	orientation up is NE	There is no indicator for orientation. The map is printed with NNE at the top of the sheet, roughly.
	scale	No indicator of scale is provided. An estimate gives a map scale is about:- 1 to 560000 9 miles to 1 inch
	sea area sea tinted	The sea area is tinted blue, and is overrun with the coast form lines.
	coast line coast form lines	The coast line is emphasized by form lines.
	rivers	Rivers are drawn by wiggly lines tapering upstream. A couple of rivers are labelled, eg:- Eden R [running into the sea at Maryport, River Ellen] Caldow R Some other rivers are labelled in their estuaries, eg:- River Kent It is possible to recognize some other rivers, but beware interesting mapping like the river connecting Grasmere lake to Thirlmere, up over the Raise Gap. The Raise Beck here has been managed artificially to flow both ways, but not in 1814.
	lakes	Lakes are drawn in outline with form lines, tinted blue. Some lakes are labelled:- Bassenthwaite W Burnmoor Tarn Buttermere Coniston W. Crommaw Derwent Devock Lake Ennerdale W Haws Water Leaths Water [Thirlmere] Lowes W. Ulles Water Wast Water Windermere Other lakes or tarns might be recognized, eg:- Brothers Water Easedale Tarn Esthwaite Water [and Priest Pot?] Grasmere lake Kentmere tarn Over Water (?) Rydal Water Skeggles Water Windermere is drawn as two lakes contiguous to each other at Bowness. Islands are shown in Derwent Water.
	relief hill hachuring	A very little relief is suggested by hill hachuring, the hills tinted pale brown. Most of the land area is tinted green. Some of the hills are labelled, eg:- Helvellin Skiddow H Bell [Ill Bell] ... while Scafell is not even indicated.
	county	County boundaries are a dashed line. Notice that the boundary entering and going along Ullswater is much as it is now. Windermere is mostly included in Westmorland, but the foot is cut out of that county. The border with Lancashire west of Wrynose is missing. County areas are not labelled.
	wards	There are fine dotted line boundaries which might delimit wards - not checked.
	settlements	A few settlements, providing points to make sense of routes, are marked by groups of blocks. While a few places are distinguished by having upright rather than italic labelling, there is not reliable differentiation of importance of place. Most, if not all, places shown are towns.
	cities   towns	group of blocks; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Kendal Ambleside
	roads sands roads	A network of roads is drawn by double lines. The sands roads are not shown, but notice the road across the Cartmel peninsula and the road to the canal foot below Ulverston, and the roads either side of the Duddon Estuary, all suggesting the routes across the sands.
	canals	The Lancaster Canal is drawn by a double line, tinted grey.

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