MERSEY AND IRWELL NAVIGATION - MANUSCRIPT PLAN

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)