Cheshire-Wilmslow-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19301

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

Stockport Archives L/625

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Wilmslow

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ848815

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8080

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Wilmslow in the county of Chester James Cawley Surveyor Macclesfield. 1840'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy, possibly from Cheshire RO DDX 309. This is evidently derived from a composite of his tithe maps of the parish: rural part is at 1:7920, town is at 1:3168. Fields numbered: schedule elsewhere.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

James Cawley, Macclesfield [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

83.0 x 97.0

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Cheshire RO DDX 309 [original]; Stockport L/625 [photo].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560