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Map, A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
Plate 11 in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire.
The map is printed on two sheets of paper bound into the book, facing each other, at their middle edges, folded to fit.
map feature:- picture frame cartouche & north point (decorative) & up is W (just off) & scale line & rivers & lakes & woods & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, lower left of centre
A MAP / of the / SOUTHERN PART of the LAKE / WINANDERMERE / and its / ENVIRONS / Surveyed by James Clarke.
inscription:- printed bottom left and right
Published Feby. 10th 1787 by James Clarke Penrith / Neele sculpt. 352 Strand London.
inscription:- printed upper right
Plate 11
scale line:- 70 chains = 141.3 mm
map type:- Clarke 1787 map (Win)
scale:- 1 to 10000 ? (1 to 9966 from scale line)
wxh, sheet 1:- 62x49.5cm
wxh, sheet 2:- 63.5x49.5cm
wxh, folded:- 25x30.5cm
wxh, map:- 994x467mm

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General notes
Map, series issued in a guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, published 1787-89; and in Plans of the Lakes ... 1793.
There are 9 maps:-
plate 1. A Map of the Town of Penrith and Country Adjacent.
plate 2. A Map of the Town of Penrith in the County of Cumberland.
plate 3. A Map of the Roads between Penrith and Ullswater, scale about 10 ins to 1 mile; shows the River Eamont from Pooley Bridge for about 4 miles NE towards Penrith, and the country and roads either side.
plate 4. A Map of the Lake Ullswater and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
plate 5. A Map of the Roads, Waters &c between Penrith and Keswick, scale about 2 ins to 1 mile; shows the road from about Stainton to beyond Threlkeld.
plate 6. A Map of Derwentwater and its Environs.
plate 7. A Map of the Roads etc. between Keswick and Broadwater.
plate 8. A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
plate 9. A Map of the Roads Lakes &c between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile; shows the road from about Castlerigg to the edge of Ambleside, past Thirlmere Lake, Grasmere water, and Rydal Water.
plate 10. A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
plate 11. A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile.
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