Durham-Gateshead-1850 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20086

Map Date:

[1850]

Repository reference:

Lancashire Record Office LSL/P03

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Gateshead

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ255630

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Plan of the borough of Gateshead.'

Comments on map:

In Robert Rawlinson, Report... on... the sanitary condition of... Gateshead, London: HMSO, 1850, f.p. 6. Notes on population and boundaries at bottom of map. Markedly devoid of 'urban' detail, and only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:12,672

Map-maker:

Standidge & Co., Litho, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.7 x 55.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills: The one thing shown in some quanity.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO LSR/P03 original]; BL X.809/18030, BOL G.A.Durh.8o 234 [1973: in F.W.D. Manders, A history of Gateshead, Gateshead Corporation, f.p.80].

Industry:

engineering, uncertain, furniture/pottery

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

spoil heaps: Various undescribed mounds are suggestive.

Ordnance Survey's

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560