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Lancashire-Salford-1872

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.
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