Durham-Sunderland-1885 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19973

Map Date:

1885

Repository reference:

Tyne & Wear Archives [open access]

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Sunderland

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX406572

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2667

Map title:

'Street plan of the borough of Sunderland specially designed for easy reference.'

Comments on map:

For Ward's Directory: on their usual blue paper.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

[Ward, Newcastle [pb].]

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.0 x 18.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

orphanages

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

Tyne & Wear Archives [open access] [1885]; Sunderland Library Local Studies ['c.1925']; Sunderland Library Local Studies ['1935']; Newcastle Central Library local studies L912.1 S958 Cr 101476 [1939].

Industry:

ship yards

Railways:

routes, sidings, named, passenger stations, misc: Skeletal sidings.

Parkland:

public parks

Extractive activity:

coal

Ordnance Survey's

1855-7

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560