Lancashire-Blackpool-1898 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21354

Map Date:

? 1898

Repository reference:

CUL 18.G.88

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Blackpool, Lytham

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD305360

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 3932

Map title:

'Blackpool, St Annes, and Lytham Tramways.'

Comments on map:

Below title are letterpress tables, showing 'the progress of the District', in terms of rateable values, population and houses. The mapping is unexciting.

Scale:

1:21,120

Map-maker:

Chas Chadwell, C.E., Richmond Chambers, Blackburn [? author], H. Maxwell & Co, Lithos, Blackpool [lith].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.8 x 27.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

water, transport., owners

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Places of Worship:

cathedral/principal church only

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.18.G.88.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Large estates and building companies: hatched red].

Street tramways:

routes shown: Tramways, working and proposed (red, green, blue).

Ordnance Survey's

1844

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1844-5

1:10,560

1891

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560