Cheshire-Macclesfield-1804 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15221

Map Date:

? 1804

Repository reference:

Cheshire RO LBM/3038

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Macclesfield

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ918737

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9276

Comments on map:

Record relates to urban part: rest is at scales varying between 1:1584 and 1:4752.

Scale:

1:792

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77 x 52, 77 x 63, 54 x 107, c.175 x 74, 97 x 77, 83 x 147

Number of parts:

6

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Cheshire RO LBM/3038 [original]; Cheshire RO QDE 2/10 [modern transcript].

Industry:

metallurgical processing

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Macclesfield town part has a classical female, with olive leaves in hair, sitting on what seems to be a roped-up parcel or bale, shaking money from a cornucopia with one hand, the other resting on a rope beehive, with what is evidently a factory in the background; title is on usual altar-slab, with trees in bckground and variety of grasses in foreground.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Factory, beehive, bale, classical female, cornucopia: in cartouche.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1870

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560