Northumberland-North Shields-1827
CBTM:
19954
Map Date:
1827
Repository reference:
Morpeth Recoprds Centre E.P.52/A.190 [original], Northumberland RO 657 [photocopy]
Historic county:
Northumberland
Town name:
North Shields, Tynemouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NZ355685
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NZ 3067
Map title:
'Plan of North Shields and Tynemouth from actual survey in 1827...'
Comments on map:
Includes inset 'Plan of No. Shields in 1787', and 'Plan of the Peninsula on which Tynemouth Castle stands made in the time of Queen Elizabeth.', latter at 1 inch to 160 feet. Relationship of this map to John Wood's of a year earlier is not clear: there are some features in common (e.g. the milestone), but the public and notable buildings selection differs markedly.
Scale:
1:2160
Map-maker:
John Rook & Son [sv], W.W. Pybus [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
132 x 59.5 [plates 64.2 x 59.5, 67.7 x 59.5].
Number of parts:
3
Legends:
Buildings: Cottages covered with thatch (broad cross-hatched), buildings of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 stories (1 story horizonal, 2 stories diagonal SW-NE, 3 stories cross-hatched, 4 stories heavy hatch NW-SE, 5 story similar to thatch, 6 stories diagonal plus horizontal), shops (light hatching plus 'doorways', hot houses & greenhouses (close horizontal plus wide vertical hatching), steam engines [squares with lines protuding halfway along each side]: all by colour which hasn't reproduced.
Colouring:
uncertain: Evidently for various building types.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
lighthouses, navigation aids, quays, misc: Life Boat House, Tide Surveyors Office, Beacon [pictorial], Buoys.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
Morpeth RO EP52/A.190 [original?]; Northumberland RO 657 [photo].
Industry:
engineering, lime/cement, furniture/pottery, textiles
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Tynemouth Abbey, in plan; House in which W. Wouldhave the original inventor of the Life Boat was born.
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: 'Part of Tynemouth Abbey' [east end].
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
flagstaff
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical: [Tynemouth Abbey].
Ferries:
ferry, landings
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
rubbish tips
Miscellaneous street furniture:
8 Mile Stone [cf Wood].
Dedicee of map:
The Most Noble Hugh, Duke of Northumberland.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In river, presumably in feet.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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
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