Staffordshire-Wednesbury-1853
CBTM:
16751
Map Date:
1853
Repository reference:
Sandwell Archives [map cabinet]
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Wednesbury
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO983953
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 0897
Comments on map:
Uncoloured: 'shaded' buildings. Nine sheets plus title.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
William White Fereday [sv], R.B. Moody, 12 Cannon St, Birmingham [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
102 x 68 [x 10].
Number of parts:
9
Legends:
symbols and abbreviations: 'Reference' on 'No. 1': CH, Coach House; St, Stable; WH, Wash House; WS, Workshop; DB, Dust Bin; RS, Rain Spout, SG, Sewer Grate; BH, Brew House; V, Ventilator; LP, Lamp Post.
Road names:
fragmentary
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, archways, bay windows, stables/coach houses
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, sanitary hazards, misc: Well, Pumps; abbreviations: WH, V, DB, RS, privies (o), CoH, BH, St, [LP not apparent].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Sandwell Archives [map cabinet].
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, timber, abbatoirs
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways, misc: Undescribed footbridge with steps, Booking Office; tramways in iron works.
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Symbolic elements:
Title sheet has local board of health's device, including the Staffordshire knot, a spade, a gun, a drainage pipe, a measuring rod and what seem to be two wheels coupled together.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing Machine.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
misc: Local Board of Health.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
Garden and park buildings:
summer houses
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights: Spot heights, bench marks (mostly indicated with asterisk), and incomplete basement levels to 0.1 ft.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1888
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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here