Staffordshire-Tipton-1883
CBTM:
16755
Map Date:
1883
Repository reference:
Dudley Archives, G/DU5/6, G/DU5/7
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Tipton
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO955925
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 9592
Comments on map:
Vol 1 has sections 1-80 and index (roads blue, railways red), and Vol 2 has sections 81-166. Of obvious Ordnance Survey derivation. Sans-serif utility style. No field numbers. Irregularly-shaped plans, with crosses with dot-ends at their junctions.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Hedley Mason & Hedley, Surveyors & Valuers, Birmingham [authors].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
79 x 52 [x 167].
Number of parts:
167
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally, house numbers: Also court numbers (Court No 7
Buildings:
shown, steps to buildings
Canals:
shown, basins/docks, wharf, other: Aqueduct, B.C.N. Stores.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, pumping stations, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
Dudley Archives, G/DU5/6, G/DU5/7.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, metallurgical processing, ship yards, oil/soap etc, timber, uncertain, misc: Furnaces, Bicycle Works, Works, Soda Water Works, Warehouses; [Cement Works].
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways: Names and outside fences only for lines built subsequent to the parent survey, and omitted from some other lines.
Gardens:
shown
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Map material:
tracing linen
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Marl Pit.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Rick Yard.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
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