Nottinghamshire-Nottingham-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20465

Map Date:

? 1880

Repository reference:

Nottingham Central Library, Local Studies, L.96.2A

Historic county:

Nottinghamshire

Town name:

Bulwell, Nottingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK576396

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 5744

Map title:

[Cover & map:] 'New Guide Map of the extended borough of Nottingham'.

Comments on map:

Dating by Nottingham Central Library: includes Midland Railway line to Melton Mowbray (opened 1880) and Great Northern Railway Leen Valley line. Below scale is 'For roads and long distances 4 inches to a mile'.

Scale:

1:18,000

Map-maker:

Stevenson, Bailey & Smith, [Engravers, Letter Press, Copper Plate & Lithographic Printers, Stationers & Account Book Manufacturers], Lister Gate, Nottingham [pr, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.2 x 82.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, reservoirs, misc: Sewage Wharf.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: By cross only.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, rifle ranges

Welfare and charitable:

blind, hospitals, mental, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges: 'B.S.' for Board School; [University Buildings].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish: [Parishes by colour, with no linework boundaries].

Known copies of map:

Nottingham Library L.06.2A; Nottingham Library A.20.c.1900.R.6, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/91 [1900?: Bell's Guide Map of the City of Nottingham, printed & pub. J. & H. Bell, Nottingham].

Industry:

uncertain: Works.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown: [Some annotated blocks of gardens on east side].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, museums

Parkland:

public parks

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Fussy display of 'gothic' framing round vignettes of Nottingham castle and a church with spire [not St Mary's], surmounted by Britannia, as surround to list of Stevenson's [or Bell's] services.

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal

Symbolic elements:

Brittannia: in cartouche.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

squaring: 2.33-inch.

Cemeteries:

shown

Street tramways:

termini: 'Tram Sta'.

Ordnance Survey's

1877-81

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560

1879-81

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560