Lancashire-Liverpool-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19262

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6, fol.4

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Liverpool

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ342905

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'The mapp of all the streets, lanes & alleys within the town of Liverpool with one side of the River Mersey lay'd down by a scale of 80 yds. in an inch by J. Chadwick 1725'.

Comments on map:

Left-hand cartouche has title, right-hand has note of how far the liberties of the port extend. Despite the scale, a very generalised map.

Scale:

1:2880

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.5 x 44.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Pictorial building at crossroads [town hall], pictorial house, pictorial conical-roof building at road junction, all undescribed.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks: Wet Dock (full of ships), Dry Dock.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

customs: Pictorial.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

EKF-L.18: Liverpool RO Hf 912 1725 (2 copies) [EKF-L.18]; Merseyside Museum Draw 119 [fragile]; Crosby Library M.291, RD (reduced photo); M.503, UC [M.31, RB evidently this]; Lancashire RO SRL/E02 [reduction at SRL/E01].

Industry:

salt, glass, rope walk: [Glass works is shown pictorially, with conical kiln].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Numerous ships in Wet Dock and in Mersey.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1847-8

1:1056

1:10,560

1864

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560