Lancashire-Liverpool-1835
CBTM:
19065
Map Date:
? 1835
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/13
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:
[Combined with dedication]: '... Trigonometrical plan of the town and port of Liverpool including the environs of Kirkdale Everton Low Hill Edge Hill & Toxteth Park from actual survey...'.
Comments on map:
No precise publication date is apparent on the TNA [PRO] T72 copy. The map carries various explanatory notes. 'Explanation and Reference' says that 'The principle of this Plan is to exhibit from actual admeasurement all the Roads, Streets, Lanes, Alleys, and Passages comprised within its boundary; also every House, Warehouse, Outbuilding, Garden, Court &c. The Docks, Basins, Quays, Ferries, and Landing Places are described on their respective sites; the Churches, Chapels, and public buildings including the Banks, Hotels, and Principal inns, are shaded Black, and each of them properly designated on the spot. The lengths of the Streets are given in yards, and where their respective sides are unequal the extent is expressed by a line taken in the centre of each.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Michael Alexander Gage [sv], Thomas Starling, 1 Wilmington Square, London [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
162.5 x 98.3 [in three portrait-shaped plates, each about 54.5 x 98.3; no compensation applied, but scale of 0.50 mile on TNA [PRO] copy is 9.73 inches].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown, wharf
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Locks, Warehouses, Harbour Master's Office, Dock Master's Office, Tide Surveyor's Office, etc.
Sanitary and utility information:
fire stations, gas works, water works, misc: Gas & Coke Co's Offices.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police, misc: Numerous police stations; Intended Custom House, noted begun in 1828 and intended to include excise and post offices, etc.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: 'Fortress', at north end of docks.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: District Provident Society.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township, Ward: [Wards are noted as being according to the Municipal Reform Act of 1835].
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 3200(1), BOL C17:70 Liverpool (1), Liverpool RO Hf 912 1836, CUL maps.A.68.83.1, TNA [PRO] T72/13, RGS 7.C.24 [EKF-L.77], Rolled Plan 40 (another at Rolled Plan 41), Crosby Library C912.4272 ('book style case on basement reserve stock shelf'), Birkenhead CL small 8; Liverpool RO Rolled Plan 5, Rolled Plan 49 [1841, overprinted with public sewers]; (listed in Lancashire RO Handlist: at 2MC); Merseyside Museum Z/F3; Liverpool RO Rolled Plan 44, Merseyside Museum MDHB Town Maps & Plans (Folded Mezz Row B) [1858, extended cover, as Philip's trig'l plan of Liverpool].
Industry:
chemicals, engineering, metallurgical processing, ship yards, oil/soap etc, textiles, timber, misc: Coal Yards, Cooperage; quite a number of sites, but rather a lack of variety of different classifications.
Railways:
routes, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram, value (undated): With explanatory note.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Borders:
decorative, latitude & longitude shown: Elaborate entwinned leaf: grandiose; graduated for latitude and longitude at 1 second intervals.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments, statues: [Huskinson's Monument, Equestrian Statue of Geo.III rd].
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing Machine (in Park Road).
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Site of an Intended Arcade.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms, municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Street tramways:
routes shown
Dedicee of map:
Mayor and Common Council. (Below left are royal arms and 'Specially patronised by His Most Excellent Majesty William the Fourth and the Corporation of Liverpool'.)
Stated measuerments:
other: Lengths of streets, in yards (not complete, but unusual); average low water springs noted as 10 ft 10 ins below datum mark.
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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