Staffordshire-Walsall-1782 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19796

Map Date:

1782

Repository reference:

Walsall Local History Centre 143/21

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:

'A plan of the town of Walsall; taken in the year 1782, by John Snape.'

Comments on map:

By itself not that informative, but the red lines along the streets appear to tie up with the cross-sections at Walsall LHC 143/20 (1:1584 horizontal, 1:480 vertical).

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

John Snape [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.0 x 70.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, other: Lines of cross-sections.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Strip-frontages only.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pumps, Spouts, 'Haynes's Pump, Soft Water', Soft Water, Wash-houfe, Springs, lines of cross-sections of water-mains.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Also steps to church.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

Walsall Archives 143/21 [associated cross-sections at Walsall Archives 143/20]; Staffordshire RO D3151/1 [photo: map only]; BLML Maps.47.e.8 [map only: no. 3 in K.J. Dean & P. Liddle, The urban growth of Walsall (1763-1966), a collection of historical maps with commentaries, Walsall Libraries and Art Gallery Committee, 1967].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A couple only].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits: Including 'Lime work'.

Crosses:

C

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560