Staffordshire-Rowley Regis-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16756

Map Date:

1883

Repository reference:

Dudley Archives G/DU5/3

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Rowley Regis

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO970870

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9585

Comments on map:

Index (railways red, roads blue, crosses with dot ends at boundary changes), as for Exeter 16755. Sans-serif derivative of Ordnance Survey, without field numbers, trees, etc.; italic for a few works names.

Scale:

1:2500

Map-maker:

Hedley Mason & Hedley, Surveyors & Valuers, Birmingham [authors].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

79 x 52 [x 17]

Number of parts:

17

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

shown, archways, stables/coach houses

Canals:

shown, basins/docks, tunnel, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain: Residual Ordnance Survey boundary change symbols.

Known copies of map:

Dudley Archives G/DU5/3.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, furniture/pottery, timber, misc: Powder Magazine, Winding Engine, Pumping Engines; extensive metal-working.

Railways:

routes, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Clubs and societies:

misc: Institute.

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

tracing linen

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Fly Pits.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:2500

1:10,560