Lancashire-Manchester-1793
CBTM:
19308
Map Date:
9.12.1793
Repository reference:
Greater Manchester Record Office AA/6
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 topographical plan of Manchester and Salford, with the adjacent parts: shewing also the different allotments of land proposed to be built on, as communicated to the surveyor by the respective proprietors.'
Comments on map:
Entered from a 'Stockdale' republished copy, 'with additions'. Top left is a brief verbal description, with market days etc, below the title. Printed from two landscape-shaped copper plates. [One has a feeling that the map is in danger of being strangled by the cleverness of its own nuances.] Lee says that Laurent was French, and probably plagarised Green's survey [Exeter 19627].
Scale:
1:3600
Map-maker:
C. Laurent, Engineer, No.2 Johnsons Buildings near the Obelisk St Georges Fields [sv, pb], J. Cary [eng], John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London [pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
93.0 x 107.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
general legend: Different shadings for buildings in Manchester and Salford, Shambles, Shops, Churches and Chapels ('+' added to hipped-roof effect), Public Edifices, Intended Chapels, stone and wooden bridges and intended dittoes, rivers and ponds, and ditto with Rushes, roads with footways and ditches, intended ditto, paths and drains, hills, rocks, gravel, Arrow to shew the course of the River, Compass [direction pointer], gardens, walls, pales, buildings to be demolished, Stone Cross, Pumps, Corn Mill [star], Coal Pit, Engine Wheel, Post, 'Intended Streets
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings and churches by unusual 'hipped roof' effect.
Mills:
windmills, watermills: Some with wheel-stars, to indicate corn mills: see 'explanation'.
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Pumps: there are two symbols, pictorial for public and circle-with-tail for houses.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools: [Private Academy, Chetham's].
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
Lee.15: BLML Maps 3215(2), K.18.79.2 Tab., BOL Gough Lancs 14, CUL Maps.36.79.3, Chetham Map Box in C Press, Chetham Map Box in Room 2, Chetham Map Book 'C' press map book, Chetham Map box in 'C' press in brown paper folders, G9, Manchester Central Library L, RGS Eng & Wales S.19, Tameside L912 Box 1212482 [1793]; Manchester RO BB/3 [Stockdale]; Stockport S/1037 [photo]; Lancashire RO DX 1983; Oldham Archives [with addns superimposed over old detail: copyright John Stockdale: building infill a bit worn: presumably Lee.15, 1795???]; CUL Maps.R.b.77 [watermarked ?1803]; Trafford map 63 [photocopy]; Trafford map 64 [photocopy of Stockdale 1794]; BOL G8/C17.43 [1968: in David & Charles reprint]; BOL (E)17:70 Manchester (48), CUL Atlas.2.96.67 [1793/1969: in Maps of Manchester 1650-1848, Manchester Public Libraries, 1969].
Industry:
chemicals, food/drink, paper/print, rope walk, textiles, misc: Pin & Paper Manufactory; overall the effect is of not much industry.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
insurance offices
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: brief verbal description, with market days etc; top right: strip-map of the road from Manchester to London (via Macclesfield, Leek, Ashbourne, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, Market Harborough, Northampton, Newport Pagnell, Woburn, Dunstable, St Albans, London Colney, Chipping Barnet & Highgate); bottom left: 'A plan of Manchester and Salford taken about 1650'; bottom right, 'A map of the country round Manchester from actual survey' [about 1:126,720].
Relief:
slopes shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Ornamental bridge with latticework sides over Canal of Ardwick Green.
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial): [New Cross is impressively pictorial].
Retail activity:
limited range: Seem to be confined to the market.
Ordnance Survey's
1844-9
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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