Staffordshire-Lichfield-1816 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22765

Map Date:

1816

Repository reference:

Bodleian Library Vet. A6 d.1025

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Lichfield

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK118096

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 1807

Map title:

'A plan of the City of Lichfield 1786 the buildings since erected Red 1816'. [sic]

Comments on map:

Fpp viii-1 of a Grangerised copy of Thomas Harwood, The history and antiquities of the City and Church of Lichfield, London: Cadell & Davies, 1806.

Scale:

1:7200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19.7 x 25.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, other: Tanyards mostly yellow.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Not very detailed: buildings in 1786 grey, those added to 1816 red.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, sewers, misc: Common Sewer.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Vet.A6 d.1025 [ex G.A.Stafford 4o 6].

Industry:

textiles: Including tenters.

Antiquities:

Friery, Dr Johnson's House.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Waterbodies:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolds].

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560