Lancashire-Lancaster-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21353

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.bb.68.85.1

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Lancaster

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD476618

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 4662

Map title:

'The town of Lancaster in 1852.'

Comments on map:

Very careful manuscript: might be later 19th century.

Scale:

1:4800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46.5 x 41.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Vague wash along frontages only.

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover: [In squares, etc].

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.bb.68.85.1.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Ordnance Survey's

1845

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560