Sheet 98ne Drift, Old Series 1". 1887. First drift edition. Lancashire, Westmoreland, Yorkshire: Bowness, Kendal, Sedburgh.

Sheet  98ne Drift, Old Series 1". 1887. First drift edition. Lancashire, Westmoreland, Yorkshire: Bowness, Kendal, Sedburgh. Hand-coloured engraving, 40 x 54cm. In brackets, New Series 39. Topography 1864, geology 1887, railways undated, issued 1906, coloured 1907. Flat, linen backed, trimmed with slight loss of marginal index diagram in left margin. Old folds on left and right map edges from when abutted to adjacent sheets. Clean, slightly age-toned, colours bright. Library stamp in upper right corner. In good condition.

About the England & Wales One Inch Old Series

The Geological Survey of England and Wales used the Old Series of the Ordnance Survey topographic map at a scale of one inch to the mile as its basemap, initially. These engraved basemaps were published and revised between 1805 and 1885; the sheet sizes varied and the layout and numbering system were eccentric. The Old Series geological maps were hand-coloured and without geological sections, which were published separately. The GS of E&W published the Old Series from 1850 to 1900, when it switched to the colour printing and the New Series one inch maps. However, old stock of the Old Series continued to be issued, hand-coloured, until the 1930s.

See also: Index Map for England & Wales One Inch Old Series.