Staffordshire-Willenhall-1856 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16745

Map Date:

? 1856

Repository reference:

Walsall Local Studies Centre 143/32

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Willenhall

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO965983

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9800

Comments on map:

Stamped by General Board of Health 2 Sep 1856, and by Local Government Act Office 6 May 1859. Much plainer than Ordnance Survey offerings, though still quite neatly finished. Abbreviations, etc, indicate that it was not made to the 1850 GBH specification. Some additional building pencilled in. Sheets 2-15 only present; Sheets 14 and 15 seem to be additions to the original scheme, to the south-west, and only carry 6 May 1859 stamps.

Scale:

1:528

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 67 [x 15]

Number of parts:

15

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Roads primose and grey; boilers grey.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, walls: Wooden Sheds (primrose with diagonal grey dashes), Outbuildings, Old Stable; some houses with X and Pulled Down superimposed, and neat red-hatched buildings, a few with dashed hatching, evidently later building. It is unclear why on some sheets buildings are hatched red on carmine ground.

Canals:

shown, basins/docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sanitary hazards, water works: Draw Well, Well, Bake House, Oven, Cart Shed, Manure Bins; abbreviations: W.S. [presumably workshop.], WP, privies (o), AB [? ash bin], DS, ST, BH [brew house], C.S., Coals [= coal sheds], D.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

misc.: The Artillery.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Walsall Local Studies Centre 143/32.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Named works; extensive metalworking; Curry Coach Manufactory [sic], Store, Lumber or Store House, Lumber.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: Railway Watch House, Signal Hut, undescribed footbridge with steps, Booking Office, Urinal.

River and foreshore features:

weirs and waterfalls

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

The Moat.

Waterbodies:

shown, fish ponds

Extractive activity:

coal

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping, pig-keeping, kennels, pounds/pinfolds: [Cattle Shed, Pinfold].

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry, spoil heaps: Old Slaughter House Shed.

Geodetic notes:

Cemetery Trigonometrical Station [not actually in the cemetery].

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses, misc: Arbours.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights: All to 0.1ft, in red.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560