Lancashire-Lancaster-1807
CBTM:
19054
Map Date:
11.7.1807
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library LS S (Acc. 45667)
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 1830.'
Comments on map:
For An account of Lancaster, Lancaster: Clark, 1807; 2nd edn, 1811. What are perhaps intended as building sites are laid out as long 'strips' perpendicular to roads.
Scale:
1:5220
Map-maker:
Neele, Strand, London [eng], C. Clark, Lancaster [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
27.8 x 17.9
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Water transport infrastructure:
quays: [Intended Quays].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL G.A.Lancs 8o 105 [in 2nd edn, 1811], CUL E.25.21, S474.c.60.3, Lancaster Pub Lib E02 LAN [in book], Manchester Central Library 'S' [1807]; Lancaster Pub Lib PL 1/189 [1807: photo]; Lancashire RO SRL/E02, 3/MC/E/2; CUL 8474.c.92, TNA [PRO] T72/13 [1830].
Industry:
rope walk, timber
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': Title is on oval, propped up against ship, crane and packages.
Symbolic elements:
Ship, crane, bales: in cartouche.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Other land-uses & land-cover:
building ground: [Building Ground with Intended Square, with dimensions in yards].
Stated measuerments:
other: Dimensions of proposed square.
Ordnance Survey's
1845
1:1056
1:10,560
1890-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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