Cheshire-Birkenhead-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20046

Map Date:

9.1842

Repository reference:

Wirral Archives B/801/1

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Birkenhead

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ325890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3590

Map title:

'Plan of the township or chapelry of Birkenhead in the county of Chester J. Bennison Surveyor 1839

Comments on map:

This could be an 1839 plan with 1842 additions. It is perhaps the model for Exeter 19270 and 19275.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

J. Bennison and John Lister [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

175 x 112

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

RX

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, boundaries, land-use, decorative: Grey-shaded lettering, etc; woods tinted green.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sewers, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, boundary markers: [Boundary stones].

Known copies of map:

Wirral Archives B/801/1, B/813/1-13.

Industry:

engineering, lime/cement, rope walk

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Ferries:

ferry

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1873-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560