Staffordshire-Wolverhampton-1751
CBTM:
19801
Map Date:
8.4.1751
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.38.48
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Wolverhampton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO919985
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 9201
Map title:
'A plan of Wolverhampton surveyed in MDCCL by Isaac Taylor and engraved by Thomas Jeffreys Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.'
Comments on map:
Historical note on right of map.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Isaac Taylor [sv], Thomas Jeffreys, corner of St Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London [eng, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
61.0 x 48.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only: Pictorial
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Notable buildings pictorial.
Turnpikes:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial): All pictorial, including the very modest Quaker meeting house.
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools: Free School [founded 1509] is pictorial; Charity School is not, but perhaps the adjoining Town Hall got in the way.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
manor
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.38.48, BOL Gough Maps Staffordshire 6, 7, Gough Maps 41J, Fol 34, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part I, CUL Maps.aa.85.75.1, Wolverhampton Archives [no pressmark] [1751]; BOL Gough Staffordshire 13 [later issue without imprint]; Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet [various photos and facsimiles]; BOL G.A.Staffs 4o 137, CUL 9474.b.1105 [1982: in F. Mason, Yesterday;'s town: Wolverhampton, pb Barracuda Books].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, textiles: [Tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [A few owners of fields named].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': At bottom of title: on left one man is carrying staves on his back, and another is sorting them; above is what looks like a pair of pliers or a wrench, gripping on the cartouche; at centre a hearth blazes away busily; on right are various boxes and packages, with e.g. 'For C.H. No.7 London' on them, with one opened and being inspected by a man, the contents including a package marked 'knives', whilst a boy behind carries two books to him; behind is an open book (ledger?) and inkpot with two pens.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: south prospect of collegiate church of St Peters; bottom left: the school.
Symbolic elements:
Men carrying and sorting staves, pair of pliers, blazing hearth, boxes and packages, boy, books, inkpot, two pens: in cartouche.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900-01
1:2500
1:10,560
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