Lancashire-Fleetwood-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20063

Map Date:

1.1841

Repository reference:

Lancashire RO DDX/428/20

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Fleetwood

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD338480

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 3541

Map title:

'Fleetwood on Wyre building plan'.

Comments on map:

This shows a radial arrangement, i.e. numerous streets which were never built, rather than the grid arrangement in the western part of the town. The actual buildings shown might be reliable.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Decimus Burton, 6 Spring Gardens [? sv], Day & Hague, Lithog. to the Queen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.5 x 34.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, lighthouses, misc: Harbour Master, Bonded wharf, Bonded Timber Yard.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

customs: 'Customs Watch House'.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO DDX/428/20.

Industry:

timber, misc: Stone & Slate [yards?].

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

public parks: ['The Mount Garden'].

Monuments:

statues

Business & commercial:

misc: Fleetwood Estate Office.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Unclear what hatched areas signify, though they cover all the areas evidently already built up.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844

1:1056

1:10,560

1890

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560