Lancashire-Manchester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19213

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS B.B.ff.942.72.L.200, p.32

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Manchester, Salford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ840980

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

'A plan of Manchefter and Salford taken about 1650.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from reproduction of 1839 version in William Farrer and J. Brownbill, eds, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, IV, London: Constable, 1911, f.p.174. Orientated south. A supplement to 'the new plan' in R. Hollingworth, Mancuniensis... (1839); has 'Reference of what is not in the New Plan.' Scale on original measured as 2.06 inches to 0.25 mile.

Scale:

1:7680

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21.7 x 14.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: More important buildings, including churches and crosses, shown pictorially.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Known copies of map:

Lee.1. BOL (E)C17:70 Manchester (48), CUL Atlas.2.96.67 [1822/1969: engr Fothergill, in Manchester facsimiles]; BL 10349.d.3 [in R. Hollingworth, Mancuniensis... (1839)]; ?Manchester Central Library [Baines/Croston, History of Lancashire, II, 1889]; [general] [VCH Lancs IV]; CUL 8474.d.127, Chetham Map Box 'C' Press-white cardboard box, 2 [pub by J.Everett, Manchester]; Lancashire RO SRL/A15 [1864 version in Court Leet books]; Lancashire RO SRL/A15 [in Trs Lancs & Ches Ant Soc 21 (1903)]; BOL Per.G.A.Lancs 4o 239/iii,27 [1980: in T.S. William, Elizabethan Manchester, Chetham Soc., 1980].

Gardens:

shown: [In a distinctly 19th-century 'flower-bed' style].

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: Cockpit.

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560