Staffordshire-Wolverhampton-1871 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20488

Map Date:

? 1871

Repository reference:

Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Wolverhampton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO 915895

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9201

Comments on map:

Untitled, and mostly complete to neat line. Dated 1871 by Wolverhampton Archives, and possibly a derivative from Exeter 20484, revised from the 1:528 [Exeter 16750].

Scale:

1:2640*

Map-maker:

Steen & Blacket, Lithographers, Wolverhampton [? pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

88.7 x 61.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses: [Grand Stand].

Known copies of map:

Staffordshire RO D(w)1818/1-8; Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet.

Industry:

metallurgical processing

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, platforms, passenger stations, misc: No rails; viaduct piers.

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Broken lines are presumably 1:528 sheetlines.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

keyboard type: Cf Exeter 20484.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: To 0.1 ft.

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