Staffordshire-Tipton-1863 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16752

Map Date:

? 1863

Repository reference:

Sandwell Archives, 'downstairs'

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Tipton

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO955925

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9592

Comments on map:

Apparently no title sheet or reference, or author, or date: plain content, but well finished. Mapmakers supplied by library staff. Great Western Railway shown as standard gauge with wide 'six foot': includes 'Princes End Branch' (? 1863), and Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. A few later additions apparent, variously in pencil and ink. The maps evidently continued in use until at least the 1920s, as evidenced by pencilled 'LMSR' and semi-detached houses on sheet 47. Some house numbers added in pencil. There is some limited later revision in black, sometimes overlying earlier buildings, e.g. on sheet 56. Sans-serif names, which repeat from sheet to sheet (unlike Ordnance Survey practice). Sheets 1-75, plus 51A: adjoining numbers for sheets straddling the boundary are placed so as to fall on the Tipton side, rather than placed centrally. [No Local Government Board, etc, stamps.]

Scale:

1:528*

Map-maker:

Peacock and Cotterell [authors].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 69 [x 76] [sheets 36 x 24 inches].

Number of parts:

76

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

masonry distinguished, archways, bay windows, steps to buildings: Wooden buildings shown [orange-brown with black dashing].

Canals:

shown, basins/docks

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, sewage disposal

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Known copies of map:

Sandwell Archives, 'downstairs'.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, lime/cement, metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Undescribed footbridge with steps; gate across industrial branch shown (sheet 23).

Miscellaneous:

Swag.

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal: Inferred from dots in circles.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

ballast hills

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560