This is a 6" to 1 mile map surveyed in 1844 and published in 1848. It can be seen immediately that Burnley was a very much smaller place than it is today. The built-up area is constrained by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal embankment and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Beyond the Railway at Springhill on Manchester Road there is little but green fields. Though Westgate and Padiham Road are there, Trafalgar Street, and the development of terraced streets up to Coal Clough