Staffordshire-Walsall-1679 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20866

Map Date:

? 1679

Repository reference:

Walsall Local History Centre M.17

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Walsall

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP014988

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Map title:

'Walsall ground plot, protracted by 50 poles in an inch'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photo of original reputedly at Northamptonshire RO, I.L.3192. Walsall Local History Centre says is by Gregory King, 1679. All rather sketchy.

Scale:

1:9900

Map-maker:

? Gregory King [? author].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.0 x 12.5 [overall: map 7.5 x 10.0).

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised: Everything pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Walsall Local History Centre M.17 [photo: original in Northants RO, I.L.3192].

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560