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Newcastle upon Tyne-1831

CBTM:
18640
Map Date:
1831
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MR 1/1128
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:
'Plan of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne and the borough of Gateshead with their respective suburbs; shewing the buildings and different properties contained therein from an actual survey by T. Oliver, Architect and Surveyor.'
Comments on map:
Dated 1830 in title, 1831 in publication note at bottom. Inset is 1:15,840 continuation of the Town Moor. Visually spectacular, with vigorous ornament. Buildings numbered; reference elsewhere. For more on Thomas Oliver, see Margaret E. Jones and H.L. Honeyman, 'Thomas Oliver and his plans for central Newcastle', Archaeologia Aeliana, publications of the Society of Anitiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 4th Series, Vol XXIX (1951), pp 239-52. Born Crailing Hall, near Jedburgh, 14 January 1791; died December 1857; buried in Jesmond Old Cemetery; assistant to John Dobson for some years, set up independently as architect in 1821; of the 1830 map R. Oliver Heslop said 'it is so perfectly executed as to invest the name of Thomas Oliver with a reputation that will continue to be associated with the town itself'; the detailed survey followed the frontages-and-pipes survey of 1824, and the Common Council Order Book of 27 March 1828 notes [quoted p.245] 'Plan or Map of Newcastle upon Tyne by Mr Thomas Oliver, Surveyor. It is ordered that Mr Thomas Oliver, Surveyor, be and he is hereby allowed to dedicate to this Body a Plan or Map of Newcastle upon Tyne which he has recently executed. And it is further ordered that four copies of the said Plan or Map of Newcastle upon Tyne which he has recently executed. And it is further ordered that four copies of the said Plan or Map be purchased at the Expence of the Corporation.'; submitted plans in 1830 and 1834 to the Common Council for straightening and improving existing streets, and some of these are shown by broken lines on the 1830 map. The survey of the Moor which is inset on the 1830 map is a reduction of one ordered by the Council on 30 March 1830, the be prepared in two copies, authenticated by the Mayor, one to be retained in the Corporation records and the other with 'the Stewards of the several Free Companies'; Council resolved on 11 January 1843 that Oliver be allowed to dedicate to the Corporation the plan which he was about to publish; Oliver published a revised map in 1849; further revised edition published in 1858 (the year after he died); also employed on railway work, and was at opening of Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Thomas Oliver, Newcastle [sv, pb], W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
99.0 x 130.0 [on only two copper plates].
Number of parts:
2
Legends:
boundaries
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, (unspecified type)
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, misc: Vicars Pump, 'Pant' in streets [? pump or water supply].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, misc: Weigh House.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Much of the walls shown by pecked lines.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
county, Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 10.c.43, Maps 33.a.6 [with Bk of Ref], CUL Maps.b.18.G.14, Gateshead Library Rolls 9, 30, 31, Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. 144422, Cr D1771] [refce at L.912.2 N536 [acc. LRS 2553, Cr.512814]], L912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.940649A], TNA [PRO] MR 1/1128 (2), TNA [PRO] T72/13, Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/10, Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/11, Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/12 [refce], Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/3/3, Tyne & Wear Archives 1677/1 [all 1831]; Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.C2 701780 00 DC, LRS C2 701781 00 77, Cr.C2 701885 00 0B, LRS C2 701886-701888 00] [reduced copies]. Jones and Honeyman say (p.249) that the 1830 map, with later roads added in red, was published by W. Boyd in 1904, with an introduction by R. Oliver Heslop: it is unclear whether 18640 or 18641 is meant.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, glass, lime/cement, metallurgical processing
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms: [Both Library and Mechanics Library].
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Monastic sites.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
'Newcastle upon Tyne from the South. Drawn on the spot by Thomas Oliver.'
Relief:
slopes shown
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Prince of Wales plumes on north pointer.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Newcastle].
Cemeteries:
shown
Geodetic notes:
Meridian through St Nicholas steeple.
Dedicee of map:
Right Worshipful Benjamin Sorbie, Esq., mayor, and the recorder, aldermen, sheriff and council of the town and county, by permission, 28 March 1828.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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
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