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Map, Derwent Water and Borrowdale, scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Josiah Neele, 352 Strand, published by Leigh and Son, 421 Strand, London, about 1830.
Bound into Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, by M A Leigh, 3rd edn published by Leigh and Son, 421 Strand, London, 1835.
map feature:- plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, top centre
DERWENT WATER AND BORROWDALE.
inscription:- printed bottom right
Josiah Neele sc 353 Strand
scale line:- 3 miles = 45.3 mm
map type:- Leigh 1830 map (Der)
scale:- 1 to 110000 ? (1 to 106579 from scale line)
wxh, map:- 88x154mm

General notes
Map, A New Map of the Lakes in Westmoreland Cumberland Etc, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, inserted in Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, by M A Leigh, 3rd edn published by Leigh and Son, 421 Strand, London, 1835.
And 4 small maps of parts of the Lake District:- Windermere; Grasmere Rydal and Langdale; Derwent Water and Borrowdale; and Ulles Water, each about 1.5 or 2 miles to 1 inch.
Detail maps of smaller areas is a new feature for a guide book.
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