Lancashire-Liverpool-1863 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19480

Map Date:

? 1863

Repository reference:

Liverpool RO Hf 912 1859

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:

'Liverpool by B.R. Davies'.

Comments on map:

The original Davies-Weekly Dispatch version looks like a straightforward copy from Ordnance Survey. The map is exceptional for Liverpool in that it is oriented north, rather than east, and shows foreshore, both of which help identify this plate as Bacon's starting-point.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

B.R. Davies, 10 George Str., Euston Squ. [dr, eng], E. Weller [lith], Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 139 Fleet St [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.7 x 64.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (symbol): Ordnance Survey X-on-building symbol [Upper Warwick St].

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Tobacco and other warehouses.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, sailors, workhouses, misc: Medical School.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward, areas named (no boundaries shown): Outside the borough township names, but no boundaries, are given.

Known copies of map:

No. 108,115,134,138,143,156 in E. Kay Farr list. Liverpool RO Hf 912 1859 [EKF-L.108]; Liverpool RO H 912 1863 [EKF-L.115]; CUL Atlas.3.86.6 [1863]; Lancashire RO SRL/A21 [1864: B.R.Davies: PO Map of Liverpool in Kelly's PO Directory of Lancs] [not found, 9:7:02]; BOL C15 a.2 [1864-7: in Cassell's British Atlas, pl.75]; CUL Atlas.3.86.10 [1869: in Bacon's county atlas: engr 'Dower']; Preston-Harris [date?]; CUL Maps.c.68.75.3 [1875: Dower: ?corr by]; Liverpool RO H 912 1881 [EKF-L.130] [1881, as G.W. Bacon's map of Liverpool, corr. to present time]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1881 [EKF-L.134] [1881: 2-sheet version for a Bacon Atlas]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1884 [EKF-L.138] [1884, as I. Slater: new plan of Liverpool, specially prepared for directory]; RGS 7.E.17 [1884, as G.W. Bacon, 2 sh, 16 x 12'', Pl 79 & 80 in New Large Scale Ordnance atlas of the British Isles]; BOL C15 c.1, National Archives of Scotland [West Register House, open access] [1885: Bacon: Ord Atlas pl 80, 81]]; Manchester Central Library 914.272 L1 [1887: in Slater's Liverpool Directory] [Missing from vol., 6:01]; [1888: in Slater's Liverpool Directory]; BOL C15 c.3 [1889: Bacon: Ord Atlas pl 81, 82]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1889 [EKF-L.143] [1889]; Manchester Central Library 914.272 L1 [missing from vol., 6:01] [1890: Slater: street plan of Liverpool]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1900 [EKF-L.156] [1900, 'new plan', 6'', 18.5 x 26.5'' (cover says for cyclists & tourists)].

Industry:

chemicals, glass, engineering, metallurgical processing, textiles, timber, misc: Coal Yards.

Railways:

routes, sidings, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, baths/spa

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens: [Botanic and Zoological Departments: unlike earlier maps, the latter has Menagerie, Concert Room, and Fireworks Department].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits: [With 'Sandstone'].

Monuments:

Monuments, [, memorials, u, s, k, i, n, s, o, n, Monuments, o, n, u, m, e, n, t, ], .

Symbolic elements:

Weekly Dispatch symbol (bearded Mercury with letter-stick, etc, above globe with banner) above title. [This, needless to say, is absent from the Bacon versions.]

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold: rural].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

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