Newcastle upon Tyne-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19966

Map Date:

7.1838

Repository reference:

Newcastle Central Library, local studies, L.942.82 L536R

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 the towns of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, shewing the latest improvements and proposed extension. July 1838.'

Comments on map:

In Richardson's descriptive companion through Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead..., Newcastle: M.A. Richardson, and London: Longman, 1838, f.p. 109. The Newcastle Central Library cards attribute the map to W. Collard, but there is nothing on it to support this. However, the frontispiece map, of ten miles round, is engraved by Collard, so the attribution seems reasonable. Reference to buildings has page numbers.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

M.A. Richardson, 101 Pilgrim St, Newcastle [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.5 x 41.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Simply 'Chapel'.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, misc: Mendicity Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, misc: Academy of Arts.

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars, exchanges, markets, misc: [Victoria Bazaar].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Newcastle Library [L942.82] N536R [acc. Cr.XD 13] [1838]; BL 578.H.7 [1841]; BL X.802/1848, BOL G.A.Northumb. 4o 98 [1838/1971: S.R. Publishers] ; Newcastle Library [L.942.82] N536R [acc. XD.26] [1846: M.A. Richardson, in A guide thro' Newcastle & vicinity].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, glass, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, misc: Repository.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Black Friary.

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons, mechanics institutes, learned societies, trade and livery company halls, unspecified

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal

Monuments:

columns: [Grey Column].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Blue Stone (on Tyne Bridge).

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