Last week agreeably to appointment a gentleman from the Ordnance Survey came to Rochdale to determine the limits of the boundary, in order that stones or posts may be placed on all roads and footpaths leading from the town.
He commenced at Heybrook and proceeded in a westerly direction until he arrived at that place again.
This gentleman has also made a most beautiful map of the Borough, three quarters of an inch to the chain.
The fields on the outskirts are so accurately laid down from a scale of chords that their contents can be ascertained sufficiently near for valuation without re-measurement of the ground.
From the Manchester Guardian, May 29th 1845.
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