Staffordshire-Burslem-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16742

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, cf Exeter 16743. No title sheet. Reasonable copy of Ordnance Survey style, though not of colour.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

Ordnance Survey [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

97 x 67 [x 5].

Number of parts:

5

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

masonry distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, misc: Named Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

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, stone/builders' yards, furniture/pottery, timber, misc: Flint Mill, Engine Ho.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weighing Machine, road Viaduct.

Cemeteries:

shown

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.' Boundary of the work shown on the Ten Foot Plan.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights: Spot heights and basement levels 0.1 ft, bench marks 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