Staffordshire-Wolverhampton-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20482

Map Date:

1842

Repository reference:

Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Wolverhampton

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO 915895

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9201

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Wolverhampton in the county of Stafford. Surveyed for ... Tithe Commutation ... and reduced from the sealed copy'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from dyeline copy. Tithe area numbers. Built-up area not mapped in much detail.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Henry Beckett, surveyor, Wolverhampton [sv], J.G. Binns Litho. Union St, Birmm. [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

123 x 89

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: 'Collegiate Church' in gothic.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses: With Grand Stand, Winning Chair.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet.

Industry:

metallurgical processing, uncertain: Most industry apparent from building shapes, but not described.

Railways:

routes, named

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits: New Red Sandstone Detritus.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560