Warwickshire-Aston-1758 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20201

Map Date:

1758

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1.d.15

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Aston

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP080890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Aston Manor in the county of Warwick belonging to Sir Lister Holte Bart.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884: evidently a transcript; scale and dimensions not corrected.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

Jas. Tomlinson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.5 x 43.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

fragmentary

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Central Library [original]: BLML Maps 1.d.15 [in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete