Lancashire-Newton in Makerfield-1745 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20041

Map Date:

1745

Repository reference:

St Helens Library, Archives & Local Studies, map cabinet

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Newton in Makerfield

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ592296

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 6193

Map title:

[At top of map:] 'A map of Newton township. 1745.' [In cartouche:] 'A map of the Burrough of Newton in the Parish of Winwick & County Palatine of Lancaster belonging to Peter Legh of Lyme Esquire Baron of Newton.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy of uncertain provenance. Record relates to the future Victorian urban area only. A companion map of Haydock, 1743, is by Benjamin Yoxall. Fields lettered and numbered; reference elsewhere. Statute chains assumed.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

[? Benjamin Yoxall [author].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

217 x 122

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, other: Purchases.

Road names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: By hatching and cross-hatching.

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

St Helens Library, Archives & Local Studies, map cabinet.

Industry:

uncertain: Kiln.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Elaborately branchy and leafy.

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown: With stiles.

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Two in cartouche: presumed to be owner's].

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844-6

1:10,560

1891

1:2500

1:10,560