Lancashire-Manchester-1886 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21242

Map Date:

8.1886

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.17

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Manchester, Salford

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SJ840980

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Manchester.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:2400, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Vol I August 1886, surveyed April to August 1886; Vol II, Feb. 1888, surveyed October to December 1887; [Vol. III], November 1893 [includes part of Salford]; [Vol IV], December 1902, surveyed October to December 1902, and extended to the docks and Trafford Park; there is also a 1:3600 Key Plan of the docks of November 1904. BLML Maps 145.b.18 includes 'Manchester carriers warehouses', January 1891, 24 sheets covering warehouses in Manchester and Salford (7 sheets), and Accrington, Ashton-under-Lyne, Altrincham, Blackburn, Broadfield, Burnley, Bury, Castleton, Cheadle, Chorley, Chrolton, Delph, Denton, Diggle, Friezeland, Greenfield, Grotton, Guide Bridge, Heywood, Hollinwood, Hyde, Longsight, Marple, Micklehurst, Middleton, Millbrook, Mill Hill [Blackburn], Milnrow, Moses Gate, Mossley, Mottram & Broadbottom, New Mills, Newton, Oldham, Over Darwen, Patricroft, Plodder Lane, Preston, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Reddish, Rochdale (including Wardleworth), Royton, Saddleworth, Sale & Ashton-on-Mersey, Shaw, Stalybridge, Stockport, Stretford, Strines, Upper Mill, Warrington, Weaste, Whitefield, Wigan, Woodley, and Worsley, with numerous sections of warehouses and railway goods depots (and an additional sheet of Preston Dock of November 1903).

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 23+8+12+28].

Number of parts:

71

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Water transport infrastructure:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.17 [1886-93]; Manchester Central Library [revised to 1900].

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

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