Staffordshire-Willenhall-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19794

Map Date:

? 1800

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 47.e.8

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Willenhall

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SO965983

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Map title:

'Plan of the hamlet or township of Willenhall in the county of Stafford describing the estates belonging to Henry and I.M. Crockett Esquires.'

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 4, from original at Birmingham City Library. Dyeline copy: unclear if reduced, though writing does look more appropriate to 1:6336 or 1:4752. Estate map, stated to be by Godson, with incomplete details of village/town.

Scale:

1:9504

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61 x 40

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, uncertain: Certain lands.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps.47.e.8 [no.4 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].

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560