Staffordshire-Handsworth-1872 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20881

Map Date:

1872

Repository reference:

Birmingham Central Library, local studies [open access map drawers: D9]

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Handsworth

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP036902

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Handsworth.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: rather minimal, borough-engineer type.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

R.H. Burman, Surveyor [author], Moody Bros., Lith., Birmingham [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58 x 45

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown, wharf

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Central Library, local studies [open access map drawers: D9].

Industry:

misc: Engine.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560