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Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
Folded and tipped in opposite p.74 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District.
map feature:- table of symbols & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & roads & railways & mines
inscription:- printed upper left
Map / OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / MINING FIELD.
inscription:- printed bottom left
W. H. Moss & Sons Ltd. Whitehaven & Workington.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Scale of Miles.
scale line:- 5 miles = 26.3 mm
map type:- Postlethwaite 1877 map 2 (Lakes/Cum/Geology/edn 1913)
scale:- 1 to 310000 ? (1 to 305959 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 27x32cm
wxh, map:- 253x288mm

General notes
Map of the Lake District Mining Field, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, 1877.
Included in Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published 1877-1913.
Mines, quarries and railways are shown.
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