Staffordshire-Walsall-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19798

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 47.e.8

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Walsall

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP014988

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Map title:

'Map of the borough of Walsall in the County of Stafford 1836.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from 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: map 7: dyeline copy, evidently reduced, from original in Duke of Sutherland's collection in Staffordshire Record Office. 'Reproduction' is very unclear. The map is dated 1836, but includes a railway opened in 1847: a later addition?

Scale:

1:15,840

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46 x 60

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

roads, uncertain: May be other colours on original.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, township, Ward

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps.47.e.8 [no.7 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].

Railways:

routes, named

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560