Lancashire-Wigan-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15839

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Wigan Archives [unnumbered]

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Wigan

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD582057

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5906

Comments on map:

Note that area is 2170 acres and population is 31,939 (1851), with breakdown by wards. Has a close relation to Exeter 15840. No 1:528 known to archivist.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

J.L. Hunter [author], C.F. Cheffins, Zincographer, 11 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

170 x 163

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, basins/docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Wigan Archives [unnumbered].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, uncertain, misc: Mills; Pepper Mill.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, misc: Circus.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: To 1 ft; Ordnance Datum.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560