Cheshire-Stockport-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19300

Map Date:

[1824]

Repository reference:

Stockport Archives S/1252

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Stockport

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ895900

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8691

Map title:

'Stockport.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from later photographic copies. For Baines's Directory. Similar cover to Exeter 19296, but includes more streets on Lancashire side.

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

R. Thornton [sv], Sidy Hall, Bury St, Bloomsb. [eng], W. Wales & Co., Castle St., Liverpool [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.2 x 18.9

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police: Including Overseers Office.

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL 010351.h.7, BL 10349.c.6, Maps 1.c.10, CUL 6.82.7, Greater Manchester Record Office BB/5, Lancs RO SRL/A21, DP/175, Manchester City Library S [missing, 22:6:01], RGS Eng & Wales S/S 100, Sheffield Archives WWM MP67, Stockport S/1252, also 323 'Town Map Binder' [1824]; BL X.809/5564 [1968: David & Charles]; BOL G.A. Lancs. 4o 354, Lancs RO SRL/A21 [1969]; BOL G.A.Ches. 4o 107 [1922/1971: in William Astle, ed, History of Stockport, repub. S.R. Publishers]; BOL G.A.Chesh.4o 105 [1971: in A picture of Stockport in Cheshire, pb E.J. Morten, 1971].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: market place and parish church (uncaptioned).

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1873

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560