Lancashire-Blackburn-1822
CBTM:
23531
Map Date:
1822
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/360
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Blackburn
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
23531
National grid reference:
SD 682282
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
23531
Map title:
'… Blackburn and its environs….'
Comments on map:
Title is combined with dedication. Despite the size of the map, the detailing is not very refined, but it is still demonstrably an example of the large-scale ‘display’ map of the 1810s to 1840s, with a characteristic lack of minor names – as well as being the basic survey for the ‘Baines’ map, Exeter 19282. Public buildings are indicated via Reference. Some outlying names in gothic: possibly for variety. Overall effect is bold rather than subtle. The map was presumably printed from two plates, and any engraving and publication details were presumably in the ‘inner’ border, lost when the sheets were mounted together.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Jas Gillies [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
88.5/88.2 x 86.6/89.2
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: ‘Intended Streets’, ‘Pits and Reservoirs’, ‘Arrow to show the course of the River’, ‘Hills’, ‘Foot Paths’, ‘Brooks’, ‘Churches and Chapels’, ‘Factories shaded dark.’
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
public buildings emphasised, shown
Canals:
Locks, shown, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Including site of the old parish church, and the new one ‘Now building’.
Markets and exchanges:
markets, misc: Fish Stones
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds: Bowling Green
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/360.
Industry:
food/drink, furniture/pottery, lime/cement, misc, timber, warehousing: Powder Magazine.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: SE view of parish church, foundation stone laid 1820, drawn by John Palmer, Architect, engraved by John Bottomley.
Relief:
shown partially: Evidently principal slopes or break of slope only.
Borders:
Lines with dicing.
Extractive activity:
coal
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Revd John Willm Whitaker, MA, Vicar, and
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