Lancashire-Preston-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19114

Map Date:

? 1836

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/14

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Preston

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD540295

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5331

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Preston divided into four wards', 'Plan of the borough of Preston divided into six wards'.

Comments on map:

Two similar traced versions of map, one showing division into four wards, the other into six wards.

Scale:

1:21,120

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.0 x 22.0, 30.0 x 20.0

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

Buildings, boundaries

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/14.

Map material:

tracing-paper

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560