Lancashire-Liverpool-1859 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19477

Map Date:

1859

Repository reference:

Liverpool RO P & SP: Maps

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Liverpool

Map type:

Miscellaneous

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ342905

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'Liverpool. 1859.'

Comments on map:

For 27th annual meeting of the British Medical Association, 27-29 July 1859. Card, 19.5 x 14.3, designed to be folded in half. The list of places (Admission on presentation of 'Card') includes the Mersey Iron & Steel Works. List of hotels on back.

Scale:

1:21,120*

Map-maker:

John R. Isaac, 52 Castle St, Lpool [?: bottom right].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

18.2 x 13.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

No.107 in E. Kay Farr list. Liverpool RO P&SP:Maps [EKF-L.107].

Industry:

metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms

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