Lancashire-Liverpool: Toxteth Park-1893 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19491

Map Date:

? 1893

Repository reference:

Liverpool RO Rolled Plan 8

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Liverpool: Toxteth Park

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SJ375875

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'The district of the Toxteth Park Local Board.'

Comments on map:

Endorsed 'Toxteth Park sewerage districts', and signed in manuscript by John Price, F.S.I., Engineer & Surveyor, 1 Feb 1894, bottom right. Building and sewerage district colours added in manuscript, as is revision of some terrace housing. Evidently related to extension of Liverpool municipal boundary at this time.

Scale:

1:4224

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

75.5 x 93.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, boundaries, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: In red, with diameters.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Local Board and sewerage districts.

Known copies of map:

Liverpool RO Rolled Plan 8.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Miscellaneous:

Title lettering is close to Withycombe-Roman: very up-to-date for 1893 typography, and very much in advance of cartographic practice for thirty years after that.

Parkland:

public parks: With Drinking Fountain, Boat House, flagstaffs.

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Sewer diameters.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: For Detached houses rather than terraces.

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