Lancashire-Manchester-1741 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19307

Map Date:

? 1741

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.18.77

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 the towns of Manchester & Salford in the county palatine of Lancaster by R. Casson & L. Berry.'

Comments on map:

Map is flanked with reference to streets and written description of Manchester and Salford. There is also an advertisement for Jno. Berry's other wares, including buttons, jewellery, silver, medicines, cough drops, music and musical instruments, including 'fiddle strings'. In rather smaller print, and tucked at the bottom, is an explanation of how to use the references. 'A plan of Manchester and Salford taken about 1650' is inset bottom left; both it and the main map are oriented S of SE.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

R. Casson, L. Berry [sv], Jno. Berry, Grocer, New Tea Warehouse, Manchester [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

115 x 66 [overall: map 65.0 x 35.7 maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican ones pictorial.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools: [Chetham's].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Lee.5-9: BLML K.Top.18.77, BOL Gough Maps Lancashire 4, Chetham Map box in 'C' press in library, flat green box, 2, Manchester RO BB/12 [?1741]; BOL Gough Maps Lancashire 5, Chetham Map box in 'C' press in library, flat green box, 1 [1745; Lee.6]; Chetham Map box in 'C' press in library, flat green box, 3 [1746: Lee.7]; K.Top.18.78, Manchester RO J/8 [?1750: Lee.8]; BOL G.A.Lancs 4o 25, CUL L*.19.195 [1751/1880: in R.W. Procter, Bygone Manchester, pb Palmer & Howe]; [1755: Lee.9]; [1757, Overton, from Lee.7: no copy known]; Manchester RO BB/1, BB/2: D/SAL/2/2/1b, 1c; Manchester Central Library-S [probably]; BOL (E)17:70 Manchester (48), CUL Atlas.2.96.67 [1746/1969: in Maps of Manchester 1650-1848, Manchester Public Libraries, 1969].

Industry:

textiles: [Spinning Fields].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Vignettes of seventeen churches and public and other notable buildings round the map, and a south-west prospect at the bottom.

Borders:

decorative

Reference system:

squaring

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial): Salford Cross.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560