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Northumberland-North Shields-1850

CBTM:
19955
Map Date:
? 1850
Repository reference:
Northumberland RO ZHE 64/53
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:
Described as 'Index map' in Northumberland RO list: unlear what it's an index to, unless it be landowners, and who made it. Approximate dating by railways. Really just buildings, roads and field boundaries, with landowners added as an afterthought: marked lack of names and descriptions, other than of towns and villages.
Scale:
1:14,400*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
79 x 95
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries, owners
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Coal Staiths.
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
Northumberland RO ZHE 64/53.
Railways:
routes
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Tynemouth abbey, e.g., shown in plan but not described.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Larger owners].
Extractive activity:
coal
Street tramways:
routes shown
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
1858
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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