North Shields-1873
CBTM:
19986
Map Date:
1873
Repository reference:
South Shields Library, local studies
Town name:
North Shields, Tynemouth, South Shields
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NZ355685
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NZ 3067
Map title:
'New plan of North & South Shields & Tynemouth, from Ordnance & actual surveys, 1873.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy; location of original uncertain.
Scale:
1:7920
Map-maker:
John Christie, Caxton House, Newcastle upon Tyne [eng, pr, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.0 x 74.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, piers, quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
coastguard, castles/forts/batteries: [Both castle and battery].
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries, sailors, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds, recreation grounds: [Pleasure Ground].
Known copies of map:
South Shields Library Local Studies [photocopy].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, glass, ship yards, misc: Colour Works.
Railways:
routes, sidings, named, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Antiquities:
Tynemouth Priory ruins shown in plan.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments: [Collingwoods Mont.].
Reference system:
squaring: 0.25-mile: left to right begins half-way through B.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
Ordnance Survey's
1854-7
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1854-7
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1854-7
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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