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Staffordshire-Lichfield-1838

CBTM:
20805
Map Date:
1.6.1838
Repository reference:
Staffordshire RO D.593/H/3/126
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:
'Map of the city and borough of Lichfield divided into parishes and wards.'
Comments on map:
Usual Dewhirst & Nichols style: lithographer very faint. Note of population in 1831 below explanation of boundaries.
Scale:
1:9504
Map-maker:
Day [lith], Dewhirst & Nichols, Land Surveyors, London [pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.0 x 57.2
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries, other: Corporation posts.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only: Including Prebendal Houses and Bishops Registry.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Quite detailed.
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, Ward, misc, boundary markers: Close; [C.P. for corporation posts].
Known copies of map:
Staffordshire RO D.593/H/3/126 [1838], BOL (E)C17:70 Lichfield 3 [1836, with geology in MS]; Lichfield RO D.593/H/3/126 [negative and positive photos].
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Antiquities:
Castle Ditch, Friery [sic].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
out-of-town inns only
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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