Cumberland-Workington-1846 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23529

Map Date:

1846

Repository reference:

Post Office Archive POST 21/17

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Workington

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX 996288

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

23529

Map title:

'A plan of the town & harbour of Workington Cumberland from an Actual Survey Anno 1793 by Wm Swinburn copied 1846'

Comments on map:

This has evidently been prepared for Post Office purposes from an earlier survey that has not come to Exeter’s notice, though the date suggests that in fact it might be the original survey for the map included in William Hutchinson, The history of the county of Cumberland, Carlisle: Law, etc, 1794, 2 vols, II, f.p. 137 (Exeter 19199): the ‘House where the Trustees of the Harbour Meet’ is suggestive, and any differences of detail content between Exeter 19199 and 23529 might be attributed to both being copies from a ‘lost’ original. The execution is not very refined, but there is reasonable building detail. Names are mostly via letters and numbers in a reference than in situ. The railway is an obvious addition, and has a distinctly superimposed look, though it is unclear what other alterations may be ‘1846’ rather than ‘1793’.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Wm Swinburne (sv).

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.7 x 76.4

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative, land-use: Gardens, common, title.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Where the Trustees of the Harbour meet’, Watch House, Lantern House.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Post Office Archive POST 21/17.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, misc, timber: Engine House; Old and New breweries.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways, named, routes: ‘Waggon Way’; ‘land take’ only for Maryport & Carlisle Railway.

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Mill Race (but no mill). Little hands point to things on the edge of the mapped area.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Decorative cartouches:

leaves at the top.