Staffordshire-Bilston-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16747

Map Date:

1855

Repository reference:

Wolverhampton Archives, Map 56

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Bilston

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ950965

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Comments on map:

Not stated to be sanitary, but carries 1:528 sheetlines. Wolverhampton Archives list attributes it to Henry Marten.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

195 x 126

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Wolverhampton Archives 56.

Industry:

uncertain: Various named furnaces; building shapes suggest numerous other works.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Rails not shown on main lines, but they are on industrial lines.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: Numerous spot heights and a few bench marks to 0.1 ft around built-up part, and also on roads coincident with township boundary.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:2500

1:10,560