Lancashire-Wigan-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19177

Map Date:

? 1836

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/14

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Wigan

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD582057

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5906

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Wigan'.

Comments on map:

Traced plan in two versions, showing two schemes for division into wards.

Scale:

1:21,120

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.0 x 31.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/14.

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560