Warwickshire-Aston-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

17002

Map Date:

? 1835

Repository reference:

Birmingham Central Library, Local Studies, map cabinets, D7

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Aston

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP080890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Comments on map:

Title says from surveys made in 1833: accompanying printed Book of Reference (1835) says 1832-3-4. Headings: No. on plan; Occupiers; Proprietors; Premises [description or field name]; Area (a.r.p.); Remarks. [Description of map from photocopy with NE quarter absent.] Built-up part shown with steets and names, but otherwise all is hatching.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

William Fowler, Birch Green, Birmingham [sv], James Wyld, Charing Cross East, London [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

128 x 175

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5550(5) [Exeter 20202], Birmingham Central Library, Local Studies, map cabinets, D7 [Exeter 17002], Birmingham Archives 305040, unnumbered [IIR 89], 349833 [ZZ 64A] (both with book of reference), 73325 [IIR 74], Warwickshire RO MB.Ast.1833 -.

Industry:

paper/print, rope walk

Railways:

projected or otherwise unbuilt lines, named

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Jordans Grave [at boundary turn].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ruler-style scale.

Map material:

parchment

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only: [Bell & Cuckoo].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete