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Lancashire-Manchester-1794

CBTM:
19627
Map Date:
1.4.1794
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 143.d.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 Manchester and Salford drawn from an actual survey by William Green, begun in the year 1787 and compleated in 1794 engraved by J. Thornton.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from 1902 reissue by the Deansgate Press, Manchester, with introductory essay by Charles Roeder, from the Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society: this has a comprehensive rubbishing of Laurent.
Scale:
1:1800
Map-maker:
William Green, Manchester [sv, pb], J. Thornton [eng], W. Thomas [eng cartouche].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
205 x 165
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown, wharf, other: Watch Houses.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools: [Chetham's].
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Lee's no. 14: BLML K.18.80.5.Tab.End., BOL C17.a.6, C17:70 Manchester b.1, CUL Atlas.1.79.10, CUL Atlas.2.90.8, Cheshire RO PM 21/3, Lancashire RO DDX 136/1; BLML maps 143.d.32, Lancashire RO DDX 136/1 [1902]; Chetham Map box (white box) 'C' press; Manchester RO CC/4; Manchester Central Library M; Stockport M/1348; Manchester RO J/4, RGS Eng & Wales S.76 [2/3 size repro, 1902, with note by R. Falkner]; Trafford map 57 [reproduction]; Tameside L.912 Box 676289, or L912 450209 [reprinted 1984].
Industry:
chemicals, engineering, food/drink, uncertain, rope walk, textiles
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Outside built-up area].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title in shade of tree with figures: mill with smoking chimney below title; three putti, one with trumpet, one holding 'Plan of Manchester and Salford', one drawing something; beehive; Brittannia-like figure pointing at putti, female figure scattering coins, third female figure apparently imploring the other two.
Relief:
cliffs: [River sides].
Symbolic elements:
Mill, putti,beehive, female figures, coins: in title.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Numerous proposed streets, many with names, weighing machine.
Crosses:
multiple crosses
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestone.
Ordnance Survey's
1844-9
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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