Staffordshire-Sedgeley-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16757

Map Date:

1883

Repository reference:

Dudley Archives G/DU5/5

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Sedgeley

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO918938

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9592

Comments on map:

Sedgeley (Upper District): villages of Sedgeley, Upper Gornal, Lower Gornal, Gospel End, Cotwall End. Similar to Exeter 16755-6.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77 x 56 [x 46]

Number of parts:

49

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

shown, steps to buildings

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown, basins/docks, tunnel, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

pumping stations, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Dudley Archives G/DU5/5.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, uncertain: Mills, Blacking Mill, Furnaces, Cement Works.

Railways:

routes, sidings, named, rails, industrial tramways/waggonways: Isolated sections of rails, sidings and tramways.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Map material:

tracing linen

Geodetic notes:

Crosses with dot ends at plan junctions.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560