Lancashire-Preston-1807 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19649

Map Date:

? 1807

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top 18.84

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Preston

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD540295

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5331

Map title:

'...Preston and its environs...'

Comments on map:

Scale measured as 1 inch to 93 yards.

Scale:

1:3348

Map-maker:

Wm. Shakeshaft [author], D. Wright, Queen St, Islington [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

90.8 x 69.8

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend: Includes sand banks [in river].

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: 'Dwelling houses', 'Factories, warehouses, shops &c'.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pumps [public]: shown pictorially.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets, (pictorial): With Fish Stones.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.18.83, Lancashire RO DDPr.141/2, DX 2044/147 [1809]; CUL Maps.c.68.82.4, Lancashire RO DDHe 122/31, DDX.44/2, SRL/MC, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/133 [repub Wm Miller, 6:1822].

Industry:

engineering, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, uncertain, timber, misc: Factory Yard, Starch House.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways: With Coal Yard: this is the tramway continuing the canal southwards.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few commercial owners or occupiers only].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Scroll.

Relief:

prominent hills

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Folly.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial sailing barges and rowing boats in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Surrounded by furled flags, including two union flags, and resting on what seem to be two cannon barrels].

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

kennels

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560