Cheshire-Wallasey-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15842

Map Date:

? 1855

Repository reference:

Wirral Archive Service W/852

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:

Very good colour photocopy of original. Bits lost at edge of original. Derives from Exeter 15841, showing how much was added later. 1:1056 not so anamalous in 1854 as it would have been 20 years later.

Scale:

1:1056

Map-maker:

Pro. Samuelate [?] [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94 x 63 [x 17].

Number of parts:

17

Colouring:

Buildings, water, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Slipway, Life Boat House.

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: Sewers described, e.g. brick sewer, 3'0'' x 1'10'', and with inclinations, e.g. 1 in 85. Existing sewers in red, proposed in blue.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Fort].

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

Wirral Archives W/852; Birkenhead Library (microfilm) [Wallasey plans tfd fr Engineers Dept to Archives, July 1987]; Wirral Archives W/851 [also Birkenhead Lib [microfilm]] [32 sheets of 1:528 of built-up parts (quarters of 1:1056)] [not found at Wirral 5:7:02: Exeter to be notified when it is]

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, metallurgical processing, ship yards, furniture/pottery, abbatoirs

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, misc: Billiards Room.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Ferries:

ferry

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Map material:

tracing-paper

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Powder Stores.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Bench marks to 0.01 ft, numerous spot heights and basement levels to 0.1ft; High Water Line of a tide rising 15 feet 6 inches on 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