Lancashire-Darwen-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21355

Map Date:

1880

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.c.68.88.2

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Darwen

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD693233

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 7025

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Over Darwen.'

Comments on map:

Seems to be revised transcript from Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: not over-refined. Reference to wards with rateable value, estimated acreage and estimated population, bottom left. This copy has had ward boundaries coloured.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

D. Scholes, Surveyor, Bradford Buildings, Mawdsley St., Bolton [author], J. Watson, 21 Bowker's Row, Bolton [pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.2 x 87.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, sewage disposal

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.c.68.88.2.

Industry:

engineering, paper/print, textiles

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1844-7

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560