Lancashire-Ormskirk-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19254

Map Date:

[1851]

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS B.B.ff.942.72.L.200

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Ormskirk

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD413084

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 4905

Map title:

'Plan of the town and township of Ormskirk in the parish of Ormskirk, hundred of West Derby, and Southern Division of the county of Lancaster.'

Comments on map:

From Reports of Superintending Inspectors of the General Board of Health. Scale is an odd choice: detail seems a bit more refined than raw 1:10,560. Is it in fact from Ordnance Survey 1:1056, with enlargement outside?

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Standidge & Co., Old Jewry [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

44.7 x 56.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries: Note of acreage of Ormskirk parish (about 31,150 acres) and township (about 600 acres) below boundary note.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO LSR/Po2, Manchester Central Library B.B.ff.942.72.L200.

Railways:

routes, named: No station.

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1891

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560