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Liverpool-1881

CBTM:
18292
Map Date:
1881
Repository reference:
Devon & Exeter Institution [open access]
Town name:
Liverpool, Birkenhead
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ305942
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 3890
Map title:
'Philips New Map of Liverpool and its environs. Compiled from actual surveys 1881.'
Comments on map:
Presumably most of the 'actual surveying' was by the Ordnance Survey, though this is nowhere indicated! Evidently a map designed to display the publishers' home city to best advantage. Originally printed from four plates. 'References', bottom right, including some 274 numbered references to churches and public buildings, plus railway stations, etc. The headings are: 'Churches in Liverpool'; 'Churches in the Out-Townships'; 'Presbyterian Churches'; 'Independent'; 'Baptist'; 'Methodist' (divided into Wesleyan, New Connexion, Primitive, United Free Church); 'Roman Catholic'; 'Welsh Chapels' (divided into Baptist, Independent, Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist: none of these last are duplicated by the earlier list!); 'Unitarian'; 'Miscellaneous Chapels'; 'Public Buildings' (some, including all the Baths, are not numbered); 'Banks'; 'Charitable Institutions'; 'Educational and Literary Institutions'; 'Cemeteries' (none numbered); 'Places of Amusement'; 'Monuments'; 'Parks' (none numbered); 'Markets'; 'Railway Stations'; and 'Reference to the Wards' (15 in Liverpool, 3 in Bootle-cum-Linacre). Mapping of Birkenhead evidently taken from an ad hoc one: see the way names are cut off.
Scale:
1:10,560
Map-maker:
George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet St, London, Philip, Son & Nephew, Atlas Buildings, 49 & 51, South Castle Street, Liverpool [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
145.9 x 104.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water, boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, piers, quays
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
volunteer parade grounds: [Review Ground in Sefton Park].
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, township, Ward
Known copies of map:
Devon & Exeter Institution, Liverpool RO Hf 912 1881 (L.132), TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/231 [1881]; Merseyside Museum MDHB Town Maps & Plans (Folded Mezz Row B) [1881, ?1884]; BLML 3200(16), BOL C17:70 Liverpool (8), Lancashire RO SRL/MC [1884]; CUL Maps.aa.18.G.43 [1888: 92 x 54 cm]; Manchester Central Library L [1891]; [1894, annot with polling districts], Liverpool RO Hf 912 1894 (L.147); [1894, as basis of P. Boulnois: proposed extn of city bdies] Liverpool RO Rolled Plan 26; (Rolled Plan 37 may be the same); also Rolled Plan 98, 99, 103; [1895, as basis of H. Percy Boulnois, city engineer, City of Liverpool, as extended in 1895, annot with fire stations and turncocks] Liverpool RO Hf 912 1895 (L.148); also at Rolled Plan 36, 79, 80, 86, 87, 88, 89, 102; BLML Maps 3200 (22) [1895, Philip: new plan of Liverpool with boro extn, 4.25'', 30.5 x 24.5'']; Liverpool RO Hf 912 1895 [flat], H 912 1895 [folded]; CUL Maps.68.89.5- , CUL Maps.68.89.7-, [1895, with boro' extension and Birkenhead]; Merseyside Museum MDHB Town Maps & Plans (Folded Mezz Row B) (L.149); (Lancashire RO Handlist), Crosby Library M.311, BC; [n.d.] Crosby Library M.549, M.554, M.562, UC; BOL C17:70 Liverpool (5) [1897: P's new map of L]; TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/301 [1899, 'New map of Liverpool'].
Industry:
timber
Railways:
routes, sidings, earthworks, named, turntables, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Monuments:
statues
Post and telegraphs:
misc: Time Gun: at Birkenhead.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 0.5-mile: A to R left to right, 1 to 12 top to bottom.
Ferries:
ferry: Various named e.g. 'Rock Ferry' on Birkenhead side of river.
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
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