Lancashire-Salford-1872 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19304

Map Date:

10.1872

Repository reference:

Salford Museum

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Salford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ815995

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 8699

Map title:

'Plan of the Salford District of the Borough of Salford'.

Comments on map:

Dated October 1872. Good clean-cut map. [The librarian indicates that they don't hold anything else of this sort.] The 'surveyor's' facsimile signature is to bottom right of the title; 'engraved on stone and printed' by Falkner.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

John Bowden, C.E. [author], George Falkner, Manchester [lith, pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

174 x 117

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs: [Coal Wharfs].

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, municipal depots, reservoirs: [Retort House and gasometers at Gas Works].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Named in gothic [a distinctly mid-Victorian touch].

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets: [The cattle market has a slaughter house adjoining].

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds: [The race course has Paddock and Stands].

Woodland:

misc: In south-west of map: might be osiers, or bog.

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [Municipal boundary].

Known copies of map:

Salford Local Studies Library.

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, rope walk, textiles, uncertain, misc: Usual 'Mills'; Paint Works.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Viaduct arches, footbridge at Ordsall Lane station. An oddity is that at Ordsall Lane, the only lines shown are west to Liverpool and east through New Bailey St station: the original Liverpool & Manchester (1830) and Manchester South Junction & Altrincham (1849) lines are shown as bridges without rails or annotations.

Gardens:

shown: [Shown by 'paths' only: not very conspicuous].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, museums, libraries/newsrooms: Royal Free Museum and Library [where this copy of the map is now].

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

What seems to be a new street is indicated by pecked lines running north-west from Blackfriars Bridge towards Broughton Street, in line with Broughton Bridge.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete: To 1:1056 standards, including divisions in building at Ordsall Lane Station.