Newcastle upon Tyne-1833 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18641

Map Date:

1833

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1128

Town name:

Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ250640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne and the borough of Gateshead reduced from a large plan now published made by T. Oliver architect from actual survey shewing the projected improvements 1833.'

Comments on map:

Appears to be a straight reduction of the 1:2376 map [Exeter 18640]. This time the reference is on the map face. (No inset of Town Moor.) For some notes on Thomas Oliver, see Exeter 18640.

Scale:

1:7128

Map-maker:

Thomas Oliver, Blackett Street, Newcastle, Architect & Surveyor [sv, pb], Geo. Aikman, Edinburgh [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.1 x 34.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Churches (dot in circle).

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, misc: Assay Office, Pilot Office.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: In the nature of antiquities, partly shown by pecked lines.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, mental

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

Berwick RO 740/P45, BOL G.A.Northumb.8o 18 [in A new picture...], CUL Maps.bb.18.G.70, Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 (Newcastle Map Portfolio, map no.7), Northumberland RO 578/161 [1830]; Tyne & Wear Archives 825/3 [1830/19--: Frank Graham reissue]; BOL G.A. Northumb. 8o 18 [1830-1: in A new picture of Newcastle upon Tyne]; BL 796.b.31, BOL G.A. Northumb. 8o 18 [1830-1: in A new picture of Newcastle upon Tyne]; BOL G.A.Northumb 16o 21 [1970: in Thomas Oliver, A new picture of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Frank Grahm]; Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr 956180A, LRS 6597] [1830, in Four maps of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Library]; BL [in A.Ihler, Directory of N & G), TNA [PRO] MR 1/1128 (1), T72/10 [II] [1833]; BL X.809/18030, BOL G.A.Durh.8o 234 [1973: extract f.p. 16 in F.W.D. Manders, A history of Gateshead, Gateshead Corporation]; Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/13 [1838]; BOL C17:70 Newcastle on Tyne b.1 [1838/1984: Frank Graham]. Jones and Honeyman (see 18640) say (p.249) that the 1830 map, with later roads added in red, was published by W. Boyd in 1904, with an introduction by R. Oliver Heslop: it is unclear whether 18640 or 18641 is meant.

Industry:

lime/cement, rope walk

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Clubs and societies:

learned societies, trade and livery company halls

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Castle, at top of map.

Relief:

slopes shown

Extractive activity:

coal

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560