Cheshire-Stockport-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19297

Map Date:

1880

Repository reference:

Stockport Archives M/153

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Stockport

Map type:

drink

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ895900

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8691

Map title:

'DRINK MAP OF STOCKPORT. Giving a bird's-eye view of the chief cause of the misery, poverty, and crime in the town.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from monochrome photocopy, thereby losing the intoxicating effect of the overprint.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

G. Fell, Surveyor, Manchester [author], James Watson, 31 Tib Street, Manchester [lith], Gospel Temperance Union (offices: Mechanics Institution) [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.5 x 42.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

licensed premises

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Selection of buildings, etc, shown may be conditioned by a desire to point to alternatives to drink, but absence of non-Anglican places-of-worship is notable.

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds

Known copies of map:

Stockport M/153 [photocopy].

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

museums

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Dedicee of map:

'Dedicated to the thoughtful attention of all who wish the welfare of the Borough, and especially of the Licensing Bench of Magistrates.'

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: 'Every red spot indicates where intoxicating liquors are sold'; fully licenced houses shown by red spot, 'All other licences' red X, breweries by red solid rectangle. (133 full licenses, 169 others.)

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