Staffordshire-Lichfield-1799 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19789

Map Date:

1799

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5100 (3)

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Lichfield

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK118096

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 1807

Map title:

'A plan of the city and close of Lichfield.'

Comments on map:

Inset on William Yates, A topographical map of the County of Stafford, surveyed 1769-75, second edition London: Faden, 1 May 1799: 1:63,360.

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

William Yates [sv], William Faden [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19.8 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Withal, quite detailed.

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

misc.: Bar-gates.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals: Almshouses.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross: [Market Cross].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5100(3), BOL C17 a.9, CUL Maps.aa.85.79.1, RGS Eng & Wales D.67.

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560