Cheshire-Chester-1795 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19202

Map Date:

4.6.1795

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library, Local Studies, open access [Q.942.7.Aik]

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Chester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405665

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4166

Map title:

'A plan of Chester.'

Comments on map:

In J. Aiken, A description of the country from thirty to forty miles round Manchester, London: John Stockdale, 1795, f.p. 384.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

J. Mutlow [eng], J.Stockdale, Piccadilly [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.0 x 19.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs, internal revenue, misc: Register Office.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

cock-fighting, race courses, sports grounds, misc: [Race course indicated by Starting Chair, etc]; Fives Courts.

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BL 578.i.29, BOL Gough Lancs 14, Cheshire RO DSW/3934/9, Cheshire RO PM 14/12, CUL Ll.11.42, SSS.8.9, Manchester City Library S, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 84; BOL G8/ C17.43, Manchester City Library 942...[open access copy] [1968: David & Charles, etc].

Industry:

food/drink, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, rope walk, textiles, timber, misc: Snuff Mills; [Sugar House].

River and foreshore features:

weirs and waterfalls: [Salmon Weir].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Two ships stern-on in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560