Lancashire-Liverpool-1769
CBTM:
19264
Map Date:
7.7.1769
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6, fol.7
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:
'A new and accurate plan of the town and port of Liverpool; wherein all the streets, squares, courts, wyents, lanes, alleys, yards, passages, fields, and docks, are carefully drawn from an actual survey; and finished March 25th. 1769, by George Perry.' [sic: including 'wyent']
Scale:
1:1440
Map-maker:
George Perry [sv], Thos Kitchin [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.3 x 50.2, 68.5 x 50.2, 67.4 x 49.7, 68.3 x 50.5 [= 136 x 101 when joined together].
Number of parts:
4
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays: Including Graving Docks.
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Buttresses to St Nicholas church.
Public buildings:
customs: [Both old and [new] Custom Houses].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: ['14 gun battery', shown by annotation only].
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds, misc: Summer House [by bowling green].
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
EKF-L.30: BLML K.Top. 18.73, BOL C17 a.6, Lancashire RO DDX/99/9 (anor copy at /10), Liverpool RO Hf 912 1769 [EKF-L.30], Manchester Central Library ff.942.4272.L6; Crosby Library M.498abcd, UC; Merseyside Museum (framed).
Industry:
bricks/tiles, distilling, food/drink, glass, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, misc: ['Pot House' seems to be pottery]; Coal Yard, [Sugar House].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, misc: St Georges Arcade.
Parkland:
public parks: ['Ladies Walks', with stairs up to them: at north end of built-up area].
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Fairly complete when not built on].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Borders:
decorative
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Machine [in Hay Market, another by brick yard: probably weighing machines], Intended Streets.
Crosses:
cross, named: [St Patricks Cross].
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Towers:
tower: [Old Tower].
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
some inns
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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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