Lancashire-Preston-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

04276

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/18/255

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Preston

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD540295

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5331

Comments on map:

The scale is written in yards (1 inch to 80 yards: 1:2880). Urban depiction is unusually detailed for a tithe map.

Scale:

1:2880

Map-maker:

J.J. Myers [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

shown

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: Packet House.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, municipal depots, water works: [Scavengers Yard].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses, misc: House of Recovery.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/18/255.

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, lime/cement, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, warehousing, timber, abbatoirs, misc: [Starch Houses]; Coal Yards.

Railways:

routes

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Estates].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560