Cheshire-Birkenhead-1858
CBTM:
19643
Map Date:
1858
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 1766 (1)
Historic county:
Cheshire
Town name:
Birkenhead
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ325890
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 3590
Map title:
'Plan of Birkenhead & Claughton-cum-Grange, with parts of the townships of Poolton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Bidston, Noctorum, Oxton & Tranmere, 1858. Mills & Fletcher, surveyors'.
Scale:
1:5280
Map-maker:
Mills & Fletcher [sv], Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, lithographers, draughtsmen & engravers, L'pool, Manchester & London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
115.2 x 77.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information
Road names:
partly: Minor ones sometimes unnamed, away from the town centre.
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Warehouses, Honduras Shed, Intended Landing Stage.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 1766(1), Birkenhead Lib M.I.19, BOL C17:70 Birkenhead(3), CUL Maps.54.85.1, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/5, 6, 7 [annotated with railway ownerships], Wirral Archives B/803/2 [with street improvements, 1:5280].
Industry:
food/drink, metallurgical processing, ship yards, furniture/pottery, misc: Smalt Works.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Parkland:
public parks
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
ferry
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: To 0.1 ft. Datum is 'the Old Dock Datum, Liverpool'.
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
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