Lancashire-Manchester: Victoria Park-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19215

Map Date:

? 1836

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS L (Acc.14785)

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Manchester: Victoria Park

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SJ857953

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

'Plan of the Victoria Park in the townships of Rusholme and Moss Side, Manchester to be sold in plots for building upon.'

Comments on map:

Only about 28 of the 220 numbered plots have been built on; the rest are shown with buildings of different shapes, without infill. Scale is graduated in yards, perhaps as more comprehensible to prospective purchasers. Below title are three people to whom applications should be made: 'the Offices of the Company No 18 Brown St', Mr Lane, Architect, St Anns Street, and Mr Bunting, Solicitor, Brown St.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

R. Lane, Architect & Surveyor [author], T. Physick, Manchester [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.5 x 73.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

other: Boundary of park; plots built on and buildings on them.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Manchester RO AA/14, Manchester Central Library L.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Pasted on are views of the three sets of entrance lodges, and 'New church'.

Ordnance Survey's

1844-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560