Lancashire-Wigan-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

04359

Map Date:

1848

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/18/338

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Wigan

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SD582057

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5906

Comments on map:

Parts of built-up area are generalised, but otherwise there is a detailed record of industrial land-use.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Thomas Young, Humshaugh, Hexham [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

shown

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown, warehousing

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/18/338, Wigan Archives.

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, food/drink, furniture/pottery, uncertain, misc: Factory; Pepper Mill.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

spoil heaps: 'Pit Hills'.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560