Lancashire-St Helens-1854
CBTM:
15847
Map Date:
1.1854
Repository reference:
St Helens Archives, S/TS/11/7/1-6
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
St Helens
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ512955
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 4995
Map title:
'Plan of the Town of St Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster compiled from the Ordnance and a Survey made up to Jany. 1854 by John Mercer, Surveyor.'
Comments on map:
Negative photocopy: original may possibly still be with borough engineer, but staff only know of the map in its present form. Subsequent revision has been added, to a less finished a standard of execution.
Scale:
1:1056
Map-maker:
John Mercer [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
257 x 193
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
sewers, misc: Water Shafts, .G [grate].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
St Helens Archives S/TS/11/7/1-6 [copy]; S/TS/11/8/1-5 and S/TS/11/9/1-4 [incomplete photocopies].
Industry:
chemicals, food/drink, engineering, glass, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, misc: Color Works, Mill Dams.
Railways:
routes, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits: Crane at quarry.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
What appear to be the town's inititals form a monogram in the compass boss.
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict extraction
Stated measuerments:
other: Sewers have depths below surface and pipe diameters, e.g. 7/8''.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1849
1:1056
1:10,560
1881
1:500
1891-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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