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Lancaster Historic Maps

 

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Lancaster - Detailed street plans & maps

Year Name Image Attribution
1684 Kenneth Docton. Reconstruction of Lancaster in 1684 from Towneley map. Reproduced courtesy of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
1778 Stephen Mackreth. Plan of the town of Lancaster. CC BY-SA 4.0
1800 McIntyre. Plan of Lancaster. CC BY-SA 4.0
1807 Christopher Clark. A plan of the town of Lancaster. From An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town of Lancaster Collected from the Best Authorities by C. Clark. CC BY-SA 4.0
1807

Christopher Clark: Plan of Lancaster Castle.

From An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town of Lancaster Collected from the Best Authorities by C. Clark.

CC BY-SA 4.0

1821 Jonathan Binns. Map of the town and castle of Lancaster.
With inset: Speed’s map of Lancaster, 1610.
CC BY-SA 4.0
1824

Plan of Lancaster from Baines’ history, directory and gazetteer of the county palatine of Lancaster.

CC BY-SA 4.0

1832 Robert K. Dawson. Lancaster borough/town plan for the Reform Act.  CC BY-SA 4.0
1837 Robert K. Dawson. Lancaster borough/town/city plan for the Boundary Commission. CC BY-SA 4.0
1844/45 survey

Ordnance Survey 6 inch map. 1st edition. (Sheet 30.)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1848.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Reproduced from 1848 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1846 Ordnance Survey 5 foot plan of Lancaster.
Central Lancaster section.

Reproduced from 1846 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1852 Ordnance Survey 1 inch map. 1st edition. (Sheet 91)

Reproduced from 1852 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1877 Harrison & Hall. Plan of the Town and Castle of Lancaster. Reproduced courtesy of Andrew White. From : White, Andrew. Lancaster : a history. Chichester : Phillimore, 2003
1890 survey

Ordnance Survey 25 inch plan. 1st edition. (Sheet XXX.11)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1893.

Reproduced from 1893 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1891

Ordnance Survey 6 inch map. 1st revision. (Sheet XXX.)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1895.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Reproduced from 1895 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1894 Map of Lancaster showing streets & ward boundaries. Published with Lancaster Standard, Xmas 1894. CC BY-SA 4.0
1910 survey revised

Ordnance Survey 25 inch plan. (Sheet XXX.11)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1913.

Reproduced from 1913 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1910 survey revised

Ordnance Survey 6 inch map. (Sheet XXX SE) Central Lancaster section. Published 1919.

Reproduced from 1919 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1921 Harrison & Moore. Bailrigg Estate Scotforth. CC BY-SA 4.0
1931 survey revised

Ordnance Survey 25 inch plan. (Sheet XXX.11)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1933.

Reproduced from 1933 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)

1931 survey revised, with additions in 1938

Ordnance Survey 6 inch map. (Sheet XXX SE)
Central Lancaster section.

Published 1946.

Reproduced from 1946 Ordnance Survey® map

Available via DigiMaps (University Staff and Students) or National Library of Scotland (Public)