Lancashire-Liverpool-1837 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20868

Map Date:

[1837]

Repository reference:

Walsall Local History Centre [open access]

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Liverpool

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ342905

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'Plan of Liverpool.'

Comments on map:

In Cornish's Guide and companion to the Grand Junction and Liverpool and Manchester Railways..., London: S. Cornish, n.d. [?1837], fp.57. The frontispiece map of the railway is engraved by A. Johnson, Upper Priory, Birmingham.

Scale:

1:18,103*

Map-maker:

S. Cornish & Co., 126 Newgate St, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.0 x 17.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings emphasised, but few are described.

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Public buildings:

customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Walsall Local Studies Centre [open access].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

zoological gardens

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1847-8

1:1056

1:10,560

1864

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560