Lancashire-Manchester-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19637

Map Date:

1851

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3215 (18)

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Manchester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ840980

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

[Maps:] 'Township of Manchester No.1', &c. [Index sheet:] 'Adshead's twenty four illustrated maps of the township of Manchester divided into municipal wards corrected to the 1st. May 1851.'

Comments on map:

Index at 1:5280, plus 23 sheets (some with more than one 'part' on them) at 1:792. Index has letterpress index to streets, and makes provision for hand colour. Summary population tables, 1841 and 1851. Each sheet of the detail map claims to be published 1850 and has, bottom right, 'Original survey by Richard Thornton carefully corrected [date]': date range is 10 April 1850-17 February 1851. The 'illustrated' element perhaps refers to the building infills. Aldermen named for each ward on each detail sheet. Orientation varies. Tenement divisions shown, but very few internal divisions of industrial premises or larger public buildings (e.g. Chetham's or the workhouse). [It is perhaps notable that this BLML copy was aquired only in 1894.]

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

Richard Thornton [sv], Bradshaw & Blacklock, 47 Brown St, Manchester & 59 Queen St, Manchester [lith], Joseph Adshead, 45 George St, Manchester [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

109-113 x 80-83 [x 24].

Number of parts:

24

Legends:

general legend

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, stables/coach houses, glazed areas: Provision in legend on each sheet for: Public Buildings (cross-ruling), Warehouses and Places of Business (alternate light and dark hatching), Mills, Works &c (white), Hotels, Inns and Public Houses (white), Private Houses (light stipple). Numerous yards and stables, glasshouses at Medlock Hall.

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, lamps, municipal depots, reservoirs, misc: [Lamps at road junctions].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses, misc: Night Asylum; Temporary Fever Ward [in Old Cotton Mill: on New Cross Ward, part 2].

Education and academic:

schools: Includes Chetham's.

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, Ward

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3215(18), CUL Atlas.0.025.1,1-, Manchester Central Library 'Adshead Maps'.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, glass, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, paper/print, rope walk, textiles, timber, misc: Reed Manufactory, Hat Factory, Iron and Timber Yard, Spindle & Flyer Manufactory, Shuttle Manufactory, Smallwares Manufactories; tan pits shown; a few chimneys on outlying sheets.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: Various parts named at L.Y.R. Miles Platting Works.

River and foreshore features:

misc: Culvert for overflow of water in River Medlock.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc: [Dolphin Swimming Baths].

Parkland:

public parks: With Gymnasium and Refreshment House. [Roger Kain points out that 'Play Ground for Males' is twice the size of 'Play Ground for Females'.]

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few proprietory names: the incidence of this varies from sheet to sheet].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Borders:

distance-graduated type, keyboard type: Graduated in inches; attenuated-keyboard type (omitted from a few of the later sheets).

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Pavements and frontages distinguished; no earthworks on railways, but cutting on Bradford Road shown where it passes under a railway (New Clubs, Dross Ward part 5).

Reference system:

C

Cemeteries:

shown

Street tramways:

routes shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Street widths.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560