Warwickshire-Aston-1878 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20877

Map Date:

1878

Repository reference:

Birmingham Central Library, local studies [open access map drawers: D8]

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Aston

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP080890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Plan of the manor of Aston published by order of the Local Board William Batten, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Surveyor to the Board 1878.'

Comments on map:

Outline mapping of 'municipal' type: the three Aston maps [Exeter 20877, 20200, 20878] are all from different drawings.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

William Batten, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Surveyor to the Board [? author], J.L. Allday, Lith., New Edmund St., B'ham [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.0 x 72.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours: With acreages of wards.

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Central Library, local studies [open access map drawers: D8].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Street tramways:

depots

Ordnance Survey's

1886-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560