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Cheshire-Stockport-1880

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
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