Newcastle upon Tyne-1892 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19901

Map Date:

1892

Repository reference:

BL PP.2508.saa

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:

'Map of Newcastle on Tyne, specially designed & engraved for easy reference, for Ward's Directory, 1892.'

Comments on map:

In Ward's Directory of Newcastle-on-Tyne... with which is accompanied an engraved map of the city, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [sic]: R. Ward & Sons, 1892, f.p. 13. Map is on blue stiffish (90-100 gsm) paper. Incomplete names round edges indicate that this is extracted from a larger map.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

R. Ward & Sons, Engravers & Publishers, 2 & 4 Dean St, Newcastle on Tyne [sic: pub].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53.5 x 34.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries, Reference system

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Most of the cross-hatched buildings aren't named or described.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown: In built-up part parish churches are evident only from cruciform shape; some of the undescribed cross-hatched buildings could be churches or chapels, too.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, recreation grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.455082A] [1888];

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, glass, metallurgical processing, furniture/pottery, timber, uncertain, misc: 'Mills', unspecified; Manure Works, Flint Mill.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

public parks

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Reference system:

squaring: Red squares, lettered, and cross-referred in the text.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction: Old Shafts.

Street tramways:

depots: [In Gateshead].

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