Staffordshire-Handsworth-1879 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20882

Map Date:

11.1879

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:

'Map of the district of the Handsworth Local Board. Published by order of the Board, November 1879.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from reduced photocopy. Not much more detailed than its predecessor [Exeter 20881].

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

E. Kenworthy, Surveyor [author], M. Billing, Son & Co., Liths. Birmingham [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

145 x 120

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

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

Industry:

misc: Ammunition Works.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560