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Lancashire-Bolton-1793

CBTM:
19236
Map Date:
1793
Repository reference:
Bolton Archives ZAL/1
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Bolton
Map type:
Enclosure
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD718095
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 7508
Map title:
'A map of the town and township of Great Bolton and such parts of Little Bolton as adjoin thereunto or are referred to in the schedule of the Act of Parliament[.] Done by order of the trustees of Great Bolton in the year 1793.'
Comments on map:
Dated 1793, but shows post enclosure layout (award was 1807: see Exeter 15852). Fields outside built-up area numbered: reference elsewhere. Scales of statute and Cheshire chains, and of yards, with diagonals for 1-yard readings at one end.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
R. Fletcher [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60.0 x 50.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
other: New enclosure numbers, and some buildings in the town.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Well, Pump.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Bolton Archives ZAL/1 (further examples at ZAL/1303, ZAL 54; reduced maps at ZAL/314, ZJA/297/1-3, 2/WL/72/17); Manchester Central Library L.
Industry:
timber
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile Stone.
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1:10,560
1889-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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