Lancashire-St Helens-1865 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20042

Map Date:

? 1865

Repository reference:

St Helens Library, Archives & Local Studies, map cabinet

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

St Helens

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ512955

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4995

Map title:

'St Helens Improvement Act

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy of uncertain provenance. Dated ?1860s by St Helens library: railways suggest a date range of c.1858-72. Scale measured as 4.17 inches to 1 mile: 1:15,194. (Is it reduced from 1:10,560 or 1:12,672?)

Scale:

1:14,908

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50 x 51 [assumed: cropped on right].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries, transport.: Railways and some industrial sites coloured.

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: 'Line of pipes as sanctioned in 1847'.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, misc: Improvement Act boundaries: actual and proposed.

Known copies of map:

St Helens Library, Archives & Local Studies, map cabinet.

Industry:

chemicals, glass, lime/cement, metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: diagram of thickness of seams of the St Helens Coal Mines.

Extractive activity:

coal: Notes on coal seams on face of map.

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1881

1:500

1891-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560