Stalybridge-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19312

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

Tameside L912.449214 [map cabinet in reading room]

Town name:

Stalybridge

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ963983

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9199

Map title:

'A map of the town of Stalybridge'.

Comments on map:

Purpose uncertain: writing rather faded, so that some of that is uncertain, too. Possibly an improvised administrative map. Dated 1839-46 by Tameside: is pre-railway. [User-comment on 18:7:01 suggested that contains at least one street not in 1841 census.]

Scale:

1:4752*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63.0 x 47.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries, Reference system, other: Mills, distance circles.

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries, other: Mills distinctively coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, township, misc: Police District, Hartshead Division.

Known copies of map:

Tameside L.912 MC 449214.

Industry:

uncertain: Mills, distinctively coloured.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Reference system:

distance circles: 1-furlong circles from post office.

Ordnance Survey's

1849-50

1:1056

1:10,560

1874

1:1056

1891-2

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560