Staffordshire-Wolverhampton-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20484

Map Date:

? 1852

Repository reference:

Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Wolverhampton

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO 915895

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9201

Comments on map:

South-west section, which probably had the date, scale, and author, is missing from the photocopy used for this record. This seems to be the map which Wolverhampton Archives attributes to R.S. Hoggar in 1852. Impressive from a distance, but penning is shaky: might possibly be a revised and augmented replot from tithe outside the 1:528 part.

Scale:

1:2640*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

192 x 185

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: A few wells.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses: With Grand Stand, Winning Chair, Refreshment Room.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet.

Industry:

engineering, metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations: Piers but not rails shown on viaducts; 'Intended Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.'

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Pecked lines are evidently sheets of 1:528.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

keyboard type

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights, other: Spot-heights and bench marks to 0.1 ft: Bottom Sill, Top Water levels on canal.

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