Lancashire-Bolton-1882
CBTM:
19238
Map Date:
1882
Repository reference:
Bolton Archives & Local Studies
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Bolton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD718095
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 7508
Map title:
[Top centre on all sheets:] 'Plan of the borough of Bolton'; [Index:] 'Index to the Plan of the borough of Bolton. Shewing the boundaries of townships and wards and the numbers of the sheets.'
Comments on map:
A revision of the Ordnance Survey 1:1056, and following general OS engraved style quite closely (including emphasis on and interiors of 'public' buildings, but with a greater use of Egyptian in place of copperplate), though OS derivation seems nowhere to be mentioned. 47 sheets plus index sheet, which has lettering and boundaries in black, and all other base-map detail in salmon-pink/orange-brown. 'Drawn upon Stone' by Johnston. On sheet 22 is 'County Police Station (Ground Plan)': single rather than double-line walls. Sheet numbers of completion of administrative divisions given in copperplate in the margins, in the best OS style. However, not all names broken by sheet edges are completed in the margin: on sheet 36 appears 'Bolton Moor' and on sheet 37 'Reservoir no.2'. Vertical measurements notably absent.
Scale:
1:1056
Map-maker:
J. Broctor, M.Inst.C.E., Borough Surveyor [? author, ? dir], W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh and London [lith, pr], Bolton Corporation [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
45.7 x 61.0 (x 47) [within neatline: about 53 x 68 maximum area], 46.0 x 61.5 [index].
Number of parts:
48
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally: 'Little Bolton Hall' in gothic.
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, municipal depots, reservoirs, sewage disposal: [Bolton Corporation Sanitary Yard, Filtering Ponds, Sewage Works with sewer outlets into stream]. Gas works is shown in suitable detail, including internal pillars and vaulting (?) in Purifying House. 'Lamp' at road junctions, etc, on sheet 20: evidently only shown as potential traffic obstructions.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: 'Tombs' in grounds of St Peter's church (vicarage), which has vaulting, as do other churches. St Stephens Church on sheet 32 is 'Lever Bridge Per. Curacy', which seems a slightly miscalculated attempt to outdo the OS at its own game.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: [Interior of Town Hall shown, but not described].
Defence and military:
barracks: [These are Volunteer Barracks].
Welfare and charitable:
blind, infirmaries, orphanages, misc: [Workshops for the Blind; interiors of infirmary and orphanage shown but not described].
Education and academic:
schools: Some internal descriptions, but not consistent.
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets: [Market hall with 'stalls'].
Recreation and sports venues:
bathing, gymnasia, sports grounds, recreation grounds: [In the recreation grounds are boys and girls gymnasiums and bathing pond (suitably circular: does one do circles rather than lengths? spirals??). Most of the 'sports grounds' are bowling greens].
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, township, Ward, boundary markers
Known copies of map:
Bolton Archives (several copies), NLS.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, glass, stone/builders' yards, metallurgical processing, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Bobbin Manufactory, Fly and Spindle Works, Coal Yard, Safe Manufactory, Public Abattoirs (including Cattle Pens and Pig Slaughter House), Coach Factory, Postal Telegraph Works. Numerous named mills, a few of which are not further described (most are). Boiler and engine houses, chimneys and associated reservoirs, etc, shown, with pecked-line or single-line divisions, in OS style. Wooden Pipe over Reservoir on sheet 16. Brick Shed on sheet 34 is assumed to be generally industrial and particularly structural, though it is in italic rather than roman; nearby, on sheet 43, appears a definite brick works. On sheet 38 Lever Street Mill is annotated '(dismantled)'. Suspicious lack of breweries to supply the enormous number of pubs and beer houses.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, level crossings, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: No rails under roofed areas except in passenger stations. Switch levers (but no signal posts), travelling crane. London & North Western Railway station at Great Moor Street on sheet 28 is mapped in full detail, but Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway station at Trinity Street on sheet 29 apparently is not.
Gardens:
shown: Flowerbed-effects, not to quite such a high resolution as Ordnance Survey.
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, museums, libraries/newsrooms: [The Baths are evidently occidental, but there are also 'Oriental Baths'].
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: With Stone Trough and Fountain; Pavilion, Band Pavilion, Girls Gymnasium, Fountains, Seats.
Road transport:
misc: Cabmen's Shelter.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, misc: Reform Club, Junior Reform Club.
Relief:
shown partially: For OS-approved slopes.
Extractive activity:
coal: With shafts.
Monuments:
Monuments
Miscellaneous transport-related:
W.M. [weighing machines], gates across roads, etc (elongated 'X').
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown: In Tonge cemetery are 'Nonconformist' and 'Episcopalian' chapels, and on sheets 24 and 25 these plus 'Roman Catholic Chapel' appear in Heaton cemetery, where the layout of the Registrar's House is also shown.
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile stones.
Walls, embankments, etc:
'Masonry' effect for some retaining walls.
Street tramways:
routes shown
Garden and park buildings:
sundials
Miscellaneous religious group:
Convent.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1:10,560
1889-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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