Lancashire-Liverpool-1829 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19259

Map Date:

1829

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library ff.912.4272.L6, fol.1

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 Liverpool, and the Pool, as they appeared about the year 1650.'

Comments on map:

Bottom centre: 'Copied from the original drawing as deposited in the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster, and from other authentic and original documents, for The Stranger in Liverpool. Published by Thos. Kaye, 1829.'

Scale:

1:7920*

Map-maker:

Chas. Okill [eng], Thos Kaye [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.9 x 13.9

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: 'Limestone Perch, ''below which the filth and sweepings are to be cast'', 1573. This Perch continued to be placed about this situation 'till about the middle of the 18th. century.'

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

EKF-L.15: CUL Maps.c.18.G.274, CUL MS.Plans.747, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1650 [C. Okill: copied from the original for The Stranger in Liverpool, 1829]; CUL S300.b.93.25 [1936: in T.H. Bickerton, A medical history of Liverpool]; Lancashire RO SRL/(P)43 [in James Boardman, Liverpool table talk, Liverpool, n.d., c.1969]; Crosby Library M.291 (photo).

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Crosses:

multiple crosses: [Shown by crosses].

Towers:

tower

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