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Lancashire-Liverpool-1769

CBTM:
19263
Map Date:
1769
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6, fol.5
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 plan of the town of Liverpool with its docks, streets, lanes and alleys. Laid down to the 29th. day of September 1768. By John Eyes.'
Comments on map:
Map date is from engraving note, bottom right.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
John Eyes [sv], Thos. Kitchin [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
39.7 x 31.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Several undescribed or named pictorial buildings.
Mills:
windmills: This may account for other circular buildings on the east of the map.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks: Named docks with ships, New Dock without ships; locks.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
EKF-L.28: BLML Maps 3200(29), Lancashire RO DDX/149, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1768, Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6 [two identical copies] [EKF-L.28]; Crosby Library M.283, UD, M.502, UC, M.291 (reduced photo).
Industry:
salt, engineering, glass, metallurgical processing, rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
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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