As others saw us …….. Mr. William Yates and his map of Didsbury ..... with a bit of Burnage

I like maps and Yates' maps of Lancashire dated 1786 is a fine one.

“It was the first large scale map of the county   and shows borough and market towns, villages and hamlets, churches, chapels, gentleman’s seats together with their name, if they were subscribers to the map.  It shows Hundreds, beacons, castles, priories, hills moors, mosses, meres, coal pits, wind and water mills, toll bars, rivers, streams and canals”.

All of which makes it a nice one to show what we would have looked like in 1786.

Location; Didsbury

Picture; Didsbury, 1786, from Yates’ Map of Lancashire 1786, Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/

*Yates’ Map of Lancashire 1786, Digital Archives Association,