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Lancashire-Huyton-1878

CBTM:
15846
Map Date:
1878
Repository reference:
Knowsley Archives KA 48/0/P1-P5, P18-P23
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Huyton
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ442902
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 4995
Comments on map:
Originally in 14 sheets (each two double-elephants); not all now present. Some buildings without basement levels, etc, seem to be later additions. A few areas have been revised on separate slips, pasted on. Some later work is shown up by differences in linework and wrting.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
William Wrennall, Liverpool [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
94 x 125 [x 14: now 11]
Number of parts:
14
Legends:
general legend: Houses and outbuildings, glasshouses (blue dashes), wooden buildings (black dashes), Lamp Posts (.LP), Sewer Grids (rectangle + SG), Cess Pools .cp, Man Holes (mh), Bench Marks (in red).
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, utilities
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised, glazed areas, steps to buildings: Public buildings cross-hatched, glasshouses with blue dashes.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, lamps, sewers, misc: Shaft, Fountain; sewers in blue with diameters and direction of flow, and invert and tank bed information at discharge into 'brook'; brick sewers, rubble drain; abbreviations: SG, LP, B.S., L.H. (on pipes), F.P.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police, misc: Public Offices.
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Knowsley Archives KA 48/0/P1-P5, P18-P23.
Industry:
food/drink, smithing
Railways:
routes, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: W. Machines, Signal Box.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
working mens
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing Machine, sidewalks or verges.
Crosses:
CX
Cemeteries:
shown
Walls, embankments, etc:
Building lines (in red).
Stated measuerments:
basement levels, spot heights, other: Spot heights and basement levels to 0.1 ft, related to Ordnance Datum; sewer diameters.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1844-6
1:10,560
1891
1:2500
1:10,560
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