Lancashire-Morecambe-1833 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15485

Map Date:

? 1833

Repository reference:

Lancashire RO AT/2

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Morecambe

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD430640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 4662

Comments on map:

Made under act 5th Geo IV, for converting Lancaster parish tithes to corn rent: entry here relates only to Morecambe (in Poulton, Bare & Torrisholme township). Author not given, but Willan took over as commissioner after the original one died, and style is similar to Exeter parish map 15484.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

? John Edward Willan, Priest Hutton, Lancashire, Land Surveyor [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

107 x 89

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO AT/2.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844-5

1:10,560

1889-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560