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Staffordshire-Burslem-1851

CBTM:
16743
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
Stoke-on-Trent Museum, Archaeology Section, room B33.
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Burslem
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ870497
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 8847
Comments on map:
Copies on linen, supplemented by later versions of some sheets, one sheet of sections, and one of market place. Sewers added, with dimensions in inches, gradients (1 in xx), flow arrows, and remarks such as 'egg shaped sewer'. The later versions lack internal industrial 'appropriations' and similar fine detail. On the 24 'originals', houses without basement levels seem to be later neat additions.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Ordnance Survey [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
97 x 67 [x 24, + 20].
Number of parts:
44
Colouring:
Buildings, water, uncertain: A few sheets have green, orange and primrose areas.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, archways, steps to buildings: Sheds: grey with flecking.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown, offices, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, sanitary hazards, misc: Well, Tank. Abbreviations: CH, St, DP, Py (privy, not piggery: no 'o'), CoH, GP, SG, ClH, W, CB, .P, WT, WH.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, township, boundary mereings
Known copies of map:
Stoke-on-Trent Museum, Archaeology Section, room B33.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, glass, smithing, lime/cement, oil/soap etc, rope walk, furniture/pottery, timber: Potteries with bottle-kilns and other internal details; Colour Works, Workshop, Cranes, Store Hos, Offices.
Railways:
platforms, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways: Mostly outside 1:528 area.
River and foreshore features:
misc: Brook to be filled up.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown, fish ponds
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Extractive activity:
coal, metal ore, quarries/pits
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing machines.
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Turntables [by parish boundary: function unclear], Ruin.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping
Towers:
tower
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict extraction
Geodetic notes:
'The marginal lines are perpendiculars and parallels to the Meridian of St Paul's Church Tower.' Triangulation points on buildings.
Garden and park buildings:
summer houses
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: Some with Skittle Alleys.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, basement levels, spot heights: Sewer diameters and gradients; spot heights and basement levels to 0.1 ft, bench marks to 0.01 ft. Heights stated to be above mean sea level, with no datum given.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1875-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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