Staffordshire-Tipton-1837
CBTM:
20836
Map Date:
1837
Repository reference:
Dudley Archives 1470C
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Tipton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO955925
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 9592
Map title:
'... plan of the parish of Tipton...'
Comments on map:
Top right is note of area (2095:2:7), and of population in 1831 and estimated change since. Much less refined than usual with Wood. Scale measures about 1:7500 from O, but about 1:7128 over 40 chains.
Scale:
1:7128
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Edinr [sv], Turner & Co. Edinburgh [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53.0 x 72.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
roads, water, boundaries: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Including a ruined church.
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Dudley Archives 1470C.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, uncertain: One 'works', on boundary.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Larger owners outside built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: 'Old Work'.
Dedicee of map:
Sir Horace St Paul, Bart [a large landowner: see map].
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
out-of-town inns only
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
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