MERSEY AND IRWELL NAVIGATION - MANUSCRIPT PLAN


"Plan of Part of the Mersey Irwell Navigation from the Commencement at the River-Irk [Manchester] to Irlam-Ferry 1806"; "Plan... beginning at Irlam Ferry and Ending at Howley, 1806"; "Plan... with the Line of the New Cut or Canal from Howley to Runcorn,... Surveyed by I. Moorhouse, 1806", MANUSCRIPT PLAN ON 3 SHEETS, pen and ink (black, some township and other names heightened in red, a few details in blue or green), each sheet with title caption signed "surveyed by I. Moorhouse" (2 above a small pictorial vignette), each with a compass rose and "statute chains" bar, on waxed linen rolled, a couple of later pencil annotations, one small hole in blank area of first sheet, blank area of one vertical margin slightly strengthened, but generally very good condition, each sheet approximately 940 x 4060mm., [1806] (3)
|IMPRESSIVE LARGE MAP, ON THREE SHEETS, DETAILING THE COURSE OF THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE MERSEY AND IRWELL NAVAGATION, from its commencement in Manchester to its finish at Runcorn, the major conurbations, estates and land owners along the route captioned, and the land "belonging to the Navigation is distinguished by a Green shade".