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Staffordshire-West Bromwich-1837

CBTM:
20824
Map Date:
1837
Repository reference:
Staffordshire RO 1350
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
West Bromwich
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP000920
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 0897
Map title:
'Plan of West Bromwich from actual survey by John Wood 1837.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from negative photo of varnished copy in very bad condition, supplemended by 'facsimile' sold by Sandwell Community History & Archives Service, which seems to have been touched up, but omits much of the built-up part, and also engraving note and publication note. Co-publisher details in bottom margin damaged. All the usual Wood features: notes of post miles and population.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], W. Murphy & J. Wood, Edinburgh [eng], John Wood and stationers at ... [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
88 x 104
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Woodland:
shown, landmark tree
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
Staffordshire RO 1350, Sandwell Archives [both photos].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, metallurgical processing, misc: Nail Manufacrory.
Railways:
routes
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Larger owners].
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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