Staffordshire-Willenhall-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20794

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

Wolverhampton Archives map 46

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Willenhall

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO965983

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Willenhall in the parish of Wolverhampton and county of Stafford.'

Comments on map:

Has 'London & North Western Railway' (i.e. after 1846), but 'Intended new canal' (the Bentley Canal, opened 1843): might be a later 19th century transcript of the 1838 rating map of which an incomplete copy (top half only) is at Walsall LHC, 143/31. Fields numbered, no reference available.

Scale:

1:2376*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

87/143 x 234 [L-shaped].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Wolverhampton Archives map 46.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Map material:

tracing linen

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560