Liverpool-1835
CBTM:
19270
Map Date:
9.1835
Repository reference:
Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6, fol.22
Town name:
Liverpool, Birkenhead
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ342905
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 3691
Map title:
'A map of the town and port of Liverpool, with their environs including Seacomb, Woodside, Birkenhead, Tranmere, &c. From actual survey by Jonathan Bennison, Liverpool. 1835.'
Comments on map:
An impeccable performance.
Scale:
1:7920
Map-maker:
Jonathan Bennison, Liverpool [sv, pb], J. Dower, Pentonville, London [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
87.5 x 62.5, 87.3 x 62.7, 87.1 x 62.7, 87.2 x 62.3 [195 x 125 when joined together].
Number of parts:
4
Legends:
altitude information, boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, lighthouses, navigation aids
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Including the Floating Chapel.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police: [Police is 'Dock Police Office'].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, blind, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses: [Racecourse is that at Aintree, complete with stands].
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, township
Known copies of map:
EKF-L.73,84,89,91,93,98: BLML Maps 37.b.49, CUL Maps.B.68.83.2-, Crosby Library M.301abc, BC; M.291, M.295, RD, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1835 [EKF-L.73] [1835]; Birkenhead Lib M.I.16 [1835: photo]; Litho transfers, about 22 x 13.5 ins: CUL Maps.C.68.84.1, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1841 [EKF-L.84] [1841]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1846 [EKF-L.89], Crosby Library M.302abc, BC; M.291, RD (reduced photo) ['from actual survey by John Young'] [1846]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1847 [EKF-L.91] [1847]; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1849 [EKF-L.93] [1849, pub Geo Philip]; BLML Maps 8.d.39, BOL G.A.Gen Top 4o 8, CUL Atlas.4.85.2,46, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1851 [flat], H 912 1851 [folded] [EKF-L.98] [1851: pb H.G. Collins, in Benj. Clarke, The British Gazetteer].
Industry:
chemicals, metallurgical processing, ship yards, rope walk, misc: Smalt Works [sic].
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [Around periphery of Liverpool and for industrial premises, likewise on the Cheshire side, but not further out in fields, though they are given for farms, in preference to proper placenames].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, learned societies
Relief:
slopes shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments, statues: [Statue of George III, Huskinson's Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
misc: Courses of ferries not shown.
Cemeteries:
shown
Geodetic notes:
Latitude & longitude given as 53.22.41 north, 2.54.15 west.
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile stones.
Walls, embankments, etc:
Field boundaries with 'hedges'.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
out-of-town inns only
Miscellaneous religious group:
Bible Repository.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Grass-ground effect in fields, completed to neat line in most directions.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In Mersey, in feet: are referred to low water 'great spring tides'.
Ordnance Survey's
1873-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1847-8
1:1056
1:10,560
1864
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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