Lancashire-Blackpool-1877 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19624

Map Date:

1877

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3230 (6)

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Blackpool

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD305360

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 3541

Map title:

'Plan of Blackpool, Southshore, & the township of Layton with Warbreck, in the county of Lancaster. Laid down from actual survey made in the year 1877. By Joseph Harding, Civil Engineer & Land Surveyor Preston.'

Comments on map:

Not very well printed (all in one piece), and some of the lettering in the more congested parts is pretty nearly illegible.

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

Joseph Harding, Civil Engineer & Land Surveyor, Preston [sv], W. Dobson, Preston [lith], John Grime, Stationer, Church St, Blackpool [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

113.2 x 74.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, Ward

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3230 (6), BOL C17:70 Blackpool (4), CUL Maps 68.87.5.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

cliffs

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1844

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560