Lancashire-Southport-1887 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20092

Map Date:

? 1887

Repository reference:

Southport Library, reference & local studies, M194, BRC

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Southport

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD335172

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 3416

Map title:

'Southport and Birkdale.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: evidently from guide book. Advertises T. Seymour Mead's patent medicines and coffee round the sides. Dated 1887 by Southport Library. 'For Index see Page opposite', which isn't present. Possibly from the Southport Visiter (a newspaper, yet in being).

Scale:

1:21,120

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

47 x 32.3 [map 45 x 28].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

advertising: Southport Visiter Office.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, misc: Life Boat House.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

shown

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

Southport M.194, BRC.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: No doubt a similar range to Exeter 20089.

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks

Service and professional:

newspaper offices: [Southport Visiter: spared the indignity of a number].

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1845-6

1:10,560

1889-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560