Durham-Sunderland-1826 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19919

Map Date:

1826

Repository reference:

BOL c17:2 a.1

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Sunderland

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ406572

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 3458

Map title:

'Plan of the towns of Sunderland, Bishop Wearmouth and Monk Wearmouth, from actual survey 1826.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Town atlas of Northumberland and Durham by John Wood 1820-1827, Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1991. Comparative population tables, bottom right. 'Environs sketched', bottom right, below publication note.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, Bernard Castle [sic] [sv, pb], W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh [eng], Mr Reed, Sunderland [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

38.5 x 58.5, 39.0 x 58.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, boundaries

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

lighthouses, piers, quays, wharfs, misc: Drops, Bond Yard.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works: [Gass Works].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals: [Fort].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, township, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Berwick RO 740/P18 [1826?]; Sunderland Library [photocopy]; BOL c17:2 a.1, CUL Atlas.2.99.2, Darlington Library U400.a.40 L.C. [72505], NLS Map.Fac.b.C17, Newcastle Central Library L.912.1 B259 [acc. Cr.95137A, Cr.96211A] LRS 9130 [in Town atlas of Northumberland and Durham by John Wood 1820-1827, Frank Graham, 1991].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, glass, lime/cement, rope walk, furniture/pottery, misc: 'Improved Patent Ropery', Steam Mill, Coal Depots, Coal Office.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

River and foreshore features:

misc: Flooded at High Water.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [In less built-up parts].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

misc: Phoenix Lodge [masonic?].

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff: Pictorial.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Intended Streets.

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

ballast hills

Ordnance Survey's

1855-7

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560