Staffordshire-West Bromwich-1837 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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