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Lancashire-Eccles-1892

CBTM:
19246
Map Date:
[1892]
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library Local Studes 942.72.Ec.4 [open access]
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Eccles
Map type:
Health Hazard
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ777987
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 7998
Map title:
'Borough of Eccles.'
Comments on map:
Endpaper in F.R. Johnson, Eccles: the growth of a Lancashire town, Eccles and District History Society, 1967, apparently taken from a copy in a private collection. Scale and dimensions presumptively compensated. One of the later 19th century's less ambitious maps. From Medical Officer of Health's report for 1892.
Scale:
1:10,560
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
25.0 x 23.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
incidence of disease: Scarlet and enteritic fever.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
Manchester Central Library 942.72.Ec4 [inside back cover: reduced scale copy].
Railways:
routes, named
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1845
1:10,560
1888
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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