Lancashire-Lancaster-1778
CBTM:
19625
Map Date:
1778
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3165 (25)
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Lancaster
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD476618
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 4662
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Lancaster...'
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
Stepn. Mackreth [author], B. Grey [dr].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60.2 x 74.2
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Also Part of the Werry Wall: unclear whether this is the town wall or something else].
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Maps Lancashire 11, Lancaster Pub Lib PL 1/4 (anor at 1/5, 1/133, 1/160, /181-183), CUL Maps.aa.68.77.1; Lancashire RO 3/MC/E/2 [also photo of same]; BLML Maps 3165(25) [photo]; CUL Maps.aa.17.G.23 [1989 facsimile].
Industry:
food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, timber: [Wood Yards; one of these by the river has ships on stocks].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [A few owners of gardens].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: south view of castle; top right: south view of St Mary's church.
Borders:
decorative
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Pictorial bridge over 'River Lyne'.
Crosses:
MP
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal, misc: [Town arms above title]; John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster's arms below view of castle, where the arms are noted as on the gate tower.
Dedicee of map:
The noblemen, clergy, gentry and merchants of the county and town of Lancaster.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1845
1:1056
1:10,560
1890-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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