Lancashire-Manchester-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22239

Map Date:

[1800]

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Cumberland 8

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 pocket plan of Manchester and Salford with the latest improvements The Words Eng'd by Kirkwood & Son Edinr.'

Comments on map:

In John Housman, A topographical description of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, and a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Carlisle: Jollie, London: Law, Clarke, f.p. 521. Scale measures about 1 inch to 195 yards, 1:7020.

Scale:

1:7040

Map-maker:

Kirkwood & Son Edinr. [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45.3 x 36.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Lack of infill in part of Salford between New Bayley and bridge by Collegiate Church. Some buildings emphasised but not described.

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools: ['College': Chethams].

Known copies of map:

BL 290.I.33, BOL Gough Cumberland 8.

Industry:

uncertain: Mill.

Gardens:

shown: [Inferred from stipple].

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560