Staffordshire-Wolverhampton-1890
CBTM:
20513
Map Date:
? 1890
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:
SO915985
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 9201
Map title:
'Street map of the borough of Wolverhampton in the county of Stafford'.
Comments on map:
Undated, but an advertisement on the back refers to a year ending April 1889. Folding and squaring suggest that it might have come from a directory. Mapmaker attributed on the grounds that they advertise on the front above the scale. A very basic map.
Scale:
1:11,520
Map-maker:
? Stokes & Bradley, wood, copper-plate and general engravers, 1 Queen St, Wolverhampton, 162 Edmund St, Birmingham [pr].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.0 x 38.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, orphanages, workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough
Known copies of map:
Wolverhampton Archives, Searchroom Map Cabinet.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Parkland:
public parks
Waterbodies:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 1.4-inch.
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900-01
1:2500
1:10,560
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