Durham-Sunderland-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19975

Map Date:

1851

Repository reference:

Tyne & Wear Archives 853/1

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 3558

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Sunderland, in the county of Durham, including Bishopwearmouth, Monkwearmouth, Deptford and Southwick. From a trigonometrical survey by Thos. Meik & Robt. Morgan, Engineers. 1851.'

Comments on map:

The contour lines are well printed: an outstanding map, both historically and to look at.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Thos Meik & Robt Morgan, Engineers [sv], M. & M.W. Lambert, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91.5 x 64.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information, boundaries

Colouring:

contours, other: Colour-printed contours, in reddish brown, anticipating Ordnance Survey 1:63,360 Popular Edition; hand-coloured foreshore (light yellow), water.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Various buildings emphasised (black instead of hatched: anticipates Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 of 1890s).

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, docks, misc: Lifeboat House.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican named in situ in gothic: others in reference.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

TW

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, Ward

Known copies of map:

Newcastle Central Library L.912.1 S958 [acc. Cr.D.782], Tyne & Wear Archives 853/1 [original]; Sunderland Library [photocopy].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, glass, ship yards, paper/print, rope walk, textiles, timber: Patent Slipway at shipyards.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons: ['Lodge'].

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

contours: Reddish brown, at 5 foot intervals above high water in the river.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1855-7

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560