Lancashire-Manchester-1887 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19041

Map Date:

[1887]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

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

Comments on map:

In K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 1887, f.p. 341, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 334, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 331, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 328. [Text is by J.F. Muirhead: see p.v.]

Scale:

1:17,300

Map-maker:

Wagner & Debes Gegl. Estabt. Leipsic [? dr, pr], [Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, Dulau & Co., London [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.5 x 14.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads: Both buildings and road casings are on brown plate.

Road names:

generally: Small ones not named: 'crammed' for the scale.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills: East of Peel Park.

Canals:

shown, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries: [Chetham Hospital].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

BL 10108.d.13, 10108.ccc.15 [1887]; BL 10109.aa.3 [1890]; BL 10108.d.30 [1894]; BL 10108.ddd.30 [1897]; RGS library [in K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 1887, f.p. 341, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 334, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 331, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 328].

Industry:

chemicals

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes, learned societies

Monuments:

Monuments

Reference system:

squaring: 2.5 cm squaring.

Street tramways:

routes shown

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560