Lancashire-Wigan-1876 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15840

Map Date:

12.1876

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:

Wigan Urban Sanitary Authority: 'Surveyed and corrected to the First of January 1876... (and further corrected to December 1876).' Clearly derived from Exeter 15839. Notes of area (2188 acres), and population for 1851, 1861, 1871 and as estimated at 1 Jan 1876 (42,500).

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

J.L. Hunter, Borough Engineer [author], Geo. J. Poore & Co., Lithographers, Liverpool [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

178 x 171

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown, basins/docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.R.a.24, Wigan Archives [unnumbered].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, uncertain: Factories, Mills.

Railways:

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

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Market cross [?]: in boss of north pointer.

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560