Cheshire-Wallasey-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15841

Map Date:

? 1854

Repository reference:

Wirral Archive Service W/850

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Wallasey

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ295925

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3590

Comments on map:

Reference and index sheet (sheet lines and triangulation only) plus 17 maps. Index is at 10-inch. Sheets numbered in Roman. Sealed as First Class by General Board of Health, 25.08.1854. Surveyors from Wirral Archive Service catalogue.

Scale:

1:1056

Map-maker:

[Mills and Fletcher [sv].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96 x 65 [x 18] [seem to be 36 x 24 inches within neat lines].

Number of parts:

19

Legends:

general legend: Legend: dwelling houses (carmine), public buildings (cross-hatched), Outbuildings (beige-grey), Stone Paving and Flagging (light grey), McAdam, Gravel or Ballast; black figures for house numbers, red figures for lowest floor above datum. Lawns, pleasure grounds and gardens. Originals were in pretty bad state, but have been conserved. The map was used as a working document, and extensive revisions have been made, as can be seen by comparison with Exeter 15842, and as is evidenced by such as the (unnamed) Wirral Railway, which was opened in 1866 (shown with dark blue rails, infilled light blue).

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, land-use, transport.: Railways blue with light blue tint.

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, steps to buildings: Glasshouses blue with light blue tint.

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, misc: Dock Master's Office, Lifeboat Houses.

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, gas works, lamps, water works, sewers, misc: Manholes, LP [lampposts], Water Tower (height 218 feet).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Fort, Battery].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, sailors, misc: Dead House, Convalescent Institution for Women, [Sailors Mission Home].

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Parliamentary.

Known copies of map:

Wirral Archives W/850 [original]; Birkenhead Lib (microfilm).

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, smithing, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, furniture/pottery, warehousing, misc: Creosoting Works.

Railways:

routes, turntables

River and foreshore features:

misc: [stream] Sinks.

Gardens:

shown, allotments

Leisure and entertainment:

aquariums, public halls, Winter Gardens, misc, baths/spa: Billiard Room.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

working mens

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Ferries:

ferry

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

misc: Model Farm.

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile stones, with distances.

Street tramways:

depots

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Spot heights and basement levels to 0.1 ft, benchmarks to 0.01 ft [not on post-1854 additions], height of water-tower, High Water Line of a tide rising 15 feet 6 inches on the Old Dock Sill, Liverpool. 'The Datum is the level of the Old Dock Sill, Liverpool'.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560