Mapping Projects

A number of projects are in different stages of completion. This is a brief description and demonstration of some of them:

    Map of Hulme in 1857 (Original kindly made available by Eric Rowland)     Here is how the township of Hulme looked in 1857..

    Eccles 1888 OS Map Project     This project makes available the 24-inch to the mile OS maps of the Borough of Eccles surveyed between 1888 and 1893. From and index map of the Borough, the user can get magnified views to show even individual houses. Further maps also show enumeration districts used in the 1891 Census, accompanied by a full street index of the town.

    Eccles Parish OS Map Project (from 1848 OS 6-inch Map)     The parish of Eccles was still very large at the start of the 1800's, but it greatly declined in the following years. It's extent in 1800 is shown relative to an underlay of the 1848 OS 6-inch map. The map can be zoomed to bring out all the detail of the original.

    Eccles Parish Townships about 1800     The various townships and communities making up the Parish of Eccles around 1800 is shown.

    History of Hulme, South Manchester     The township of Hulme, only a couple of miles south of the centre of Manchester, expanded greatly in the 1800's. It absorbed waves of working-class people working in the burgeoning industries of Manchester. This shows the development as shown in contemporary maps.

    Index Map of Hulme 1890's     Here is an Index Map of Hulme which will act as a base for identifying streets and registration districts at the time of the 1871 Census.

    Changing Civil Registration Districts Around Manchester, 1837-1924     Civil Registration began in 1837. From that date, the boundaries of the registration districts around Manchester in which births, marriages, and deaths were recorded altered many times. This map clarifies how these districts changed.

    Expansion of Manchester's Boundaries, 1838-1909     Manchester was a rather small township prior to 1838. At that date it became a Municipal Borough, absorbing several nearby communities (including Hulme). In the next 71 years it kept expanding, and this map shows how the expansion occurred.

    Maps of the Salford Hundred, Early 1800's     The Salford Hundred was the administrative unit covering a wide areaa of Southeast Lancashire for several hundred years, and Manchester was a small part of it. Its influence declined precipitously in the 1800's. This set of maps, on the Web on the Mancuniensis site of Roger Hart, shows all the 13 parishes which made up the Salford Hundred.

    Manchester Parish, its Surrounding Parishes, and its Churches, 19th Century     Manchester was the dominant Ecclesiastical Parish in southeast Lancashire. This map shows its extent, and that of the parishes surrounding it.