Lancashire-Salford-1740 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19207

Map Date:

7.8.1740

Repository reference:

Manchester CL LS

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Salford

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ815985

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

'A new and very accurate plan of the whole township of Salford, wherein most of the publick and private ways and roads thereof are planely sett forth, with the most remarkable matters and places therein...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from transcript (by William Ellis, from original in possession of George Pearson), as frontispiece to Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, XXVI (1908); map is described in ibid, XXV (1907), 206-212 [in the 'Proceedings' for 8 November 1907], where is stated by H.T. Crofton that 'clearly... it was prepared in view of litigation about the highways... [Joseph Hill says] it was designed 'to give those who must be concerned in judgement and counsel a right geographycal notion of the places or Lanes in question'...' Map is described as 'occularly taken by Joseph Hill'.

Scale:

1:6336*

Map-maker:

Joseph Hill [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

38.0 x 19.0

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

Published in Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 26, 1908, also Victoria County History of Lancashire, IV.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Map material:

parchment