Staffordshire-Brierley Hill-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

08029

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/32/133

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Brierley Hill

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO918873

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9389

Comments on map:

Kingswinford tithe map: dated '1839 and 1840'.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

William Fowler and Son, Waterloo St, Birmingham [authors], C.F. Cheffins, 9 Southampton Buildings, Holborn [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

147 x 181

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

fragmentary

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown: Some buildings are black and others are hatched; it is unclear why.

Canals:

shown, reservoir

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/32/133, Dudley Archives 564A; Dudley Archives 649.C [part only: variously dated as 1840 & 1880]; Dudley Archives 783 A, 577 A [UFP].

Industry:

engineering, glass, metallurgical processing, furniture/pottery, uncertain: Mills: a highly industrialised map.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-2

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-2

1:2500

1:10,560