Wigan Town Centre 1847 - LARGE SCALE

This very detailed map covers the centre of Wigan. Features include All Saints church, Market Place, Moot Hall, Town Hall, Wigan Brewery, Dispensary, Commercial Hall, Infantry Barracks, Presbyterian Chapel, Brierly's Mill, School Common Mill, Douglas Forge, Wallgate, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway station, LNWR station, Hope Chapel, Victoria Mills, etc. On the reverse we include 10 foot to the mile sheet 93.8.11 covering the Market Place area in 1889 together with a 2,000 word introduction to the history of the area.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). Published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett