Lancashire-Manchester-1809
CBTM:
19629
Map Date:
1809
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3215 (4)
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.'
Comments on map:
No indication of how to earn a living: known industrial sites, e.g. along the Irwell below Salford, simply aren't described.
Scale:
1:5760
Map-maker:
J. Pigot [dr, eng, pr], R. & W. Dean [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.8 x 46.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some buildings emphasised but not described.
Canals:
shown, wharf
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Quakers New Meeting.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools: [Chetham's].
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Lee's no. 21: BLML Maps 3215(4) [1809]; BL S.P.R. 23.k.13*, Manchester Central Library S [1811].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': Title is on 'scroll', propped up against shield with arms, partly obscured, in turn propped on a crouching lion, with smoking mill chimney and vauge vignette of Manchester and Salford in background.
Symbolic elements:
Shield, arms, lion, mill chimney, vignette of town: in cartouche.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Numerous streets laid out for building; often named.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Partly concealed under title].
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1844-9
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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