Dury 1740 map
A 1740 map of Chester by Andrew Dury, just prior to Lavaux's more famous map of 1745. The first section of the Dee Navigation has just been completed, but the canal is still forty years away. Extra-mural development includes Upper Northgate Street, out to Boughton and Handbridge. The stripes probably indicate land under the plow and the green is grazing or salt-marsh. This is a period in Georgian Chester on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, when the most impressive "modern" buildings would have been St John's Hospital and The Exchange.
A gallery of Old Maps of Chester
Braun and Hogenberg (1581)
Smith Map (c.1588)
John Speed (c.1610)
Hollar's Map (1660's)
Lavaux Map (1745)
Hunter Map (1789)
Mutlow and StockdaIes Map (1795)
Coles Map (c.1804)
John Webb Map (1833)
Hugh Roberts (1858)