Warwickshire-Birmingham-1731
CBTM:
19373
Map Date:
1731
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top. XLII.78
Historic county:
Warwickshire
Town name:
Birmingham
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP067868
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 0888
Map title:
'The plan of Birmingham, survey'd in the year 1731.'
Comments on map:
Flanking title are statistics as to number of streets, courts, houses, inhabitants and churches and chapels in 1700 and 1731. Scale is 0.7 inch to 55 yards: was 1:3000 meant? Westley dedicates map.
Scale:
1:3000
Map-maker:
W. Westley [? author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
49.3 x 39.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Pictorial public or notable buildings, including ancient seat of Lord Birmingham.
Places of Worship:
(pictorial), shown comprehensively: All pictorial.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Markets and exchanges:
(pictorial), cross
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
British Library K.Top.42.78 [1731]; Maps 5545(10) [[1894]]; Birmingham Archives MAL/13993; Birmingham Central Library; Bodleian Library Gough Maps Warwickshire 7, 8; National Trust [on display at Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, on 12:9:2013: state unclear, but is handcoloured, apparently distinguishing inhabited and uninhabited buildings]; TNA [PRO] Library [in Conrad Gill, History of Birmingham, I, Oxford, 1952]; British Library Maps 175.k.4, CUL Maps.bb.89.88.2 [1884]; British Library Maps 175.k.4, Bodleian Library (E)c17:70 Birmingham (60), CUL Atlas.2.96.68 [1968], Dudley Archives 2468.E [1968: in Birmingham before 1800: six maps in the Local Studies Library, Birmingham Reference Library, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1968].
Industry:
misc, food/drink, metallurgical processing, textiles: [Steel Houses, tenters]; slitting & corn mills.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Waterbodies:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map
Dedicee of map:
Edward Digby and William Peyton, Esquires, MPs for Warwickshire.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
building ground
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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