Staffordshire-Lichfield-1862
CBTM:
20828
Map Date:
1862
Repository reference:
Lichfield Joint Record Office D.96
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:
'An illustrated plan of the main part of the city and close of Lichfield in Mdccclxii particularly shewing the chief frontages of every building, &c. &c. Drawn to scale from careful survey by W.H. Crompton, Architect & Surveyor.'
Comments on map:
Most buildings are identified by the 1:11,520* outline map of the city, bottom left. Taken roughly from the south-west, so that the north-west facing frontages of streets don't appear.
Scale:
1:1152
Map-maker:
W.H. Crompton, Architect & Surveyor [sv, dr].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
86.5 x 64.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, land-use: Buildings all have slate-blue roofs.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
CUL Maps.85.86.1, Lichfield Joint Record Office D.96, Wolverhampton Archives SL 69:912, Map 350.
Industry:
uncertain: A pictorial factory by the railway, not identified on the key-map.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: With pictorial signalling and (apparently) water-cranes.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
House in which Dr Johnson was born.
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: outline map with 32 notable buildings identified; right: County of Lichfield, 1:36,000; top and bottom: St Chad and Christchurch churches.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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