Lancashire-Warrington-1890 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20038

Map Date:

? 1890

Repository reference:

Warrington Library, Archives, map folder, Map no.17

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Warrington

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ604881

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 6193

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Warrington. P. Pearse, Publisher, Bookseller, and Printer, 8, Sankey Street, Warrington.'

Comments on map:

Dated 1890 by Warrington Library. The close detail suggests reduction from ?1:2640, in turn a straightforward derivative of the revised 1:1056 [Exeter 20036]: or possibly even a direct photo-reduction.

Scale:

1:5280*

Map-maker:

P. Pearse, Publisher, Bookseller, and Printer, 8, Sankey Street, Warrington [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.0 x 46.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican ones named in gothic.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

Warrington Library, Archives, map folder, Map no.17.

Industry:

oil/soap etc, uncertain: Internal buildings may be omitted in some premises: cf the revised 1:1056 [Exeter 20036].

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560