Lancashire-Ashton under Lyne-1885 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19313

Map Date:

1885

Repository reference:

Tameside Archives Q273024 3

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Ashton under Lyne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ940990

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9199

Map title:

'Map of Ashton-under-Lyne, from the Ordnance Survey by photo-lithography, corrected to date and printed at the Reporter Office, Ashton-under-Lyne.'

Comments on map:

'Issued with the Reporter Almanack for 1885.' Photo-reduced from 1:2500: quite well done, with parcel numbers deleted. 'Corrections to date' often readily identified as are in sans-serif.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

[Ordnance Survey [sv]]; Reporter Office, Ashton-under-Lyne [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.7 x 40.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, transport.: One orangey-brown printing serves for both building infill (including uncased, and thus otherwise unshown, post-OS ones) and tramways.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, misc: Wells. Quite a number of gasometers on industrial premises: an Ordnance Survey speciality, but not the sort of thing one normally expects on 'commercial' mapping.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

Tameside L.912 MC 273024 3.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, smithing, metallurgical processing, textiles

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Signal posts, mileposts, and other details characteristic of Ordnance Survey.

Parkland:

public parks

Service and professional:

newspaper offices: [Reporter Office (specially cross-hatched)].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weighing Machines.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Cranes.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction: Old Coal Shafts.

Street tramways:

routes shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849-50

1:1056

1:10,560

1874

1:1056

1:10,560

1891-2

1:1056

1:10,560