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Lancashire-Bury-1887

CBTM:
19247
Map Date:
1887
Repository reference:
Bury Archives
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Bury
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD804108
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 8011
Comments on map:
Reason for making unknown: no altitude information, e.g. Sheets not numbered: 32 present, could be more. Includes cover out to borough boundary in some directions. All sheets have author and date bottom right, and nothing else. Scale figured, no units: in fact feet.
Scale:
1:1056
Map-maker:
J. Cartwright, C.E., Borough Engineer, Bury [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
90.0 x 61.7 [overall], 90.0 x 60.0 [within neat line].
Number of parts:
32
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Cemetery green: churches and schools slate-blue-grey.
Road names:
generally: A number of laid-out but unnamed streets on the periphery.
Building names:
partly, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
archways
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, sewage disposal, misc: Shaded radius-and-circle gasometer depiction; 'Sewage Farm' is simply a description in a field.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Named in gothic.
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools: Named in gothic.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
Bury Archives [two sets: the second is less finished].
Industry:
chemicals, engineering, uncertain: Unnamed mills: a lot of large undescribed buildings.
Railways:
routes, motive power depots, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Locomotive Engine Works.
Waterbodies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown: Three cemetery chapels, coloured with buttresses, but not described.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
out-of-town inns only: [Only one noticed].
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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