Lancashire-Liverpool-1845
CBTM:
19464
Map Date:
? 1845
Repository reference:
Liverpool RO Hf 912 1845
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Liverpool, Birkenhead
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 outline map of Liverpool. Including the Cheshire Ferries & the proposed new docks. The simplest & most useful guide to strangers.'
Comments on map:
Bottom centre: 'Published expressly for ''Laceys'' Pictorial Liverpool. A new & comprehensive guide for strangers & residents.' Dating from Kay Farr list. 'Outline' is the omitting of buildings; really just principal streets, and no industry. Cheshire shore at markedly smaller scale. Stylistically forward-looking map.
Scale:
1:15,840*
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
49.0 x 33.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Several undescribed black buildings: perhaps chapels.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Tobacco Warehouse; [includes proposed docks: only they are waterlined].
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
blind, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
No.88 in E. Kay Farr list. CUL S474.d.84.6, Lancashire RO LSR/E02 [not found, 10:7:02], Liverpool RO Hf 912 1845 [EKF-L.88].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, zoological gardens
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [With supporters: elaboration in contrast to rest of map].
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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