Newcastle upon Tyne-1807 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19959

Map Date:

1807

Repository reference:

Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies, L.912.2 N536 (Newcastle Map Portfolio, map no. 5)

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:

[Inset:] 'Newcastle', [main map:] 'Plan of the rivers Tyne & Wear with the collieries waggon-ways & staiths thereon and the principal roads & villages, also a plan of Newcastle upon Tyne'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from undated photo-litho reproduction. Record applies to inset rather than the main map, which is at 1:84,480. Looks like a derivative of Kidd [Exeter 19958].

Scale:

1:14,400

Map-maker:

D. Akenhead & Sons, Newcastle upon Tyne [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.5 x 31.7 [main map: inset 10.7/13.2 x 11.7].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Some pictorial.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, mental

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 (Newcastle Map Portfolio, map no.5), Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.415287A]; Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536P [in J.Hodgson, The picture of Newcastle upon Tyne].

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