Liverpool-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19474

Map Date:

? 1855

Repository reference:

Liverpool RO Hf 912 1855

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:

'Liverpool. Drawn for Fraser's Guide.'

Comments on map:

Date of 1855 is called into question by the omission of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway lines out of Exchange station opened in 1848: but this is still omitted from 1855 version in BL, cf below. (Does include Albert Dock, opened 1846.) Letterpress index to streets in Mersey. Unexplained reference numbers on map suggest that it derives from something else.

Scale:

1:7920

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

72.2 x 46.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Tobacco Warehouse.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, police

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, l, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

No.103 in E. Kay Farr list. BL 10351.b.51, CUL Ll.16.107, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1855 [EKF-L.103].

Industry:

textiles

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Lines to Lime St, Crown St, and Birkenhead Woodside only.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

corporation/municipal, fragmentary owners: [Mostly Liverpool Corporation].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: Liverpool in 1650, with ruinous castle.

Monuments:

Monuments, statues: [Statue of George III, Huskinson Monument].

Reference system:

squaring, distance circles: 0.25 mile circles from town hall.

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1847-8

1:1056

1:10,560

1864

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560