Lancashire-Garston-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20084

Map Date:

5.1853

Repository reference:

Lancashire Record Office LSL/P03

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Garston

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405845

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'Map shewing the township of Garston, county palatine of Lancaster, to which it is proposed to apply the Public Health Act.'

Comments on map:

In Robert Rawlinson, Report... on... the sanitary condition of... Garston..., London: HMSO, 1854, f.p. [2]. Seems to be straightforward Ordnance Survey transcript, and thus of marginal 'original' interest.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41.3 x 45.8

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Wells, Pumps.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown, misc: Osiers.

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO LSR/P03.

Industry:

salt, food/drink

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Finger Post.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: Very few spot heights, evidently from contours.

Ordnance Survey's

1845-6

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560