Nottinghamshire-Nottingham-1831 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19098

Map Date:

1831

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/13

Historic county:

Nottinghamshire

Town name:

Nottingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK576396

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 5744

Map title:

'Plan of the town and county of the town of Nottingham and the several extra parochial places within the liberties of the Castle... From surveys made in the years 1827, 8 and 9 by E. Staveley and H.M. Wood.'

Comments on map:

The map gives a good impression of how the town was hemmed in by open fields.

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

E. Staveley and H.M. Wood [sv], A. Findlay, Pentonville [eng], John Staveley (successor to H. Barnett), Bookseller, Nottingham, 1831 [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

39.3 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (symbol): Numerous.

Canals:

shown, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, volunteer parade grounds: [Cavalry Ground].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.xx.18.G.1-2, Nottinghamshire Archives NO1S, Nottinghamshire Archives BL 96.2q, Nottingham Library A.20.1830, Nottingham Library A.50.Admin-Wards.R4, A.20 [uncoloured copies], TNA [PRO] T72/13, RGS Eng & Wales S.27; CUL 9474.c.278, P340.1.c.105.106, NLS 5.3264 [1937: repro for British Association, in A scientific survey of Nottingham and district]; BOL G1/C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Industry:

metallurgical processing

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

Gives latitude and longitude from Greenwich for St Mary's church, and notes that time at Nottingham is 4m.33s. after Greenwich, and 4m.10s. after St Pauls.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-81

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560