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Lancashire-Liverpool-1765

CBTM:
19455
Map Date:
6.1765
Repository reference:
Liverpool RO Hf 912 1765
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:
'...Plan of the town and lordship of Liverpool showing their boundaries & all the streets lanes and alleys with the ground set out for building upon the wet docks, dry pier and graving docks together with the several fields or closes of land held by lease under the Corporation with the lease-hold & tenants names...'
Comments on map:
An extension of the published map [Exeter 19454]. Negative photocopy: original said to be destroyed in 1940. Original evidently very carefully penned. Reduced to about 90 per cent of presumed 1:2376; dimensions compensated.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Eyes [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
180 x 95
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours, other: Also explains about leases, etc.
Colouring:
Buildings, water, owners: Corporation lands and quarry coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays: Numerous pictorial ships in docks. [Unlike Exeter 19454, no intended dock is shown.]
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs: [Shows both Custom House, Old Custom House Yard].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses: With Race Chair [pictorial].
Public/administrative boundaries:
boundary markers: [Dated].
Known copies of map:
No.26 in E. Kay Farr list. Liverpool RO Hf 912 1765 [EKF-L.26].
Industry:
chemicals, food/drink, glass, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
value (undated): The combined title, etc, includes a note that magnetic variation is about 22 degrees west.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Less built-up parts: reference to fields on map].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Wg Machine.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Estate boundary ownership:
corporation/municipal
Dedicee of map:
John Tarleton (mayor), Owen Salisbury Brereton (recorder), John Blundell & Edwd Parr (baliffs), Aldermen & Common Council of Liverpool.
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
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