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Staffordshire-Darlaston-1837

CBTM:
19793
Map Date:
? 1837
Repository reference:
Birmingham Archives 305053 [M2 rolled maps]
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Darlaston
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO976970
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 9800
Comments on map:
Top left is a note, signed by A.A. Davies, 18 November 1861, certifying that this is the 'Draft Map' of the parish prepared by her late husband, Joseph Welch, Slack Lane, Erdington, in 1837. Dean & Liddle in their Walsall compendium say that it was made for the Lord of the Manor, but there is no explicit evidence for this on the map. [The tithe map is ?1841, by John Pickering, 1st class, so Welch's is presumably an independent production.] Map has in two places stamp of Richard Fowler & Son, Land Agents and Surveyors, 118 Colmore Row, Birmingham. Map has field numbers, acreages and owners: this copy has been cropped, as evidenced by broken adjoining district names.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Joseph Welch [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
144 x 66
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Known copies of map:
Birmingham Archives 305053 [M2 rolled maps]; BLML Maps.47.e.8 [no.8 in K.J. Dean & P. Liddle, The urban growth of Walsall (1763-1966), a collection of historical maps with commentaries, Walsall Libraries and Art Gallery Committee, 1967].
Industry:
uncertain: Works.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1888
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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