Lancashire-Manchester-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19306

Map Date:

1848

Repository reference:

Greater Manchester Record Office

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 new plan of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities Taken from actual survey in 1848'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from Maps of Manchester 1650-1848, Manchester Public Libraries, 1969: anything outside border has been removed. Possibly copied from, but certainly different from, the 'Pigot' map [Exeter 19214]. Markedly non-industrious.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

[Isaac Slater [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51 x 37

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: A number of emphasised buildings are not described.

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs: [Coal Wharf].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools: [Chetham's].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

BOL (E)C17:70 Manchester (48), CUL Atlas.2.96.67, Manchester RO [1969: Maps of Manchester 1650-1848, Manchester Libraries Committee, 1969].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Omits the South Junction and Altrincham lines.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560