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Lancashire-Bacup-1848

CBTM:
19245
Map Date:
1848
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library q.912.4272.B1
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Bacup
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD870230
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 9024
Map title:
'Map of Bacup and its vicinity in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Dedicated by permission to Charles Towneley, Esqr. From an actual survey in 1848. By Horatio Merryweather, Burnley.'
Comments on map:
Made up from two sheets, one about 35 x 99 printed area, the other 69 x 99. Bottom centre of combined map: 'Note.
Scale:
1:2400
Map-maker:
Horatio Merryweather, Burnley [sv], Standidge & Co., 36 Old Jewry [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
102.5 x 98.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, township, misc: Gas Limits.
Known copies of map:
Manchester Central Library q912.4272 B1.
Industry:
engineering, uncertain: Usual numerous named but undescribed mills.
Railways:
projected or otherwise unbuilt lines, named, passenger stations: [Actually two 'intended' lines, one to 'Original proposed terminus', the other to 'Proposed terminus'; they don't join, and so are generally but not wholly as actually built].
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Three pasted on views in corners: Fern Hill, Broad Clough, Stubby Lee.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Dedicee of map:
Charles Towneley, Esq.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
building ground
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1849
1:1056
1:10,560
1891
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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