Warwickshire-Birmingham-1751 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20181

Map Date:

29.4.1751

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.XLII.79, 80

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:

'A plan of Birmingham surveyed in MDCCL by Samuel Bradford and engraved by Thomas Jeffreys Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.'

Comments on map:

British Library K.Top.42.79 is the main map; 42.80 is the western part of the main map with an undated engraved extension pasted on. On left of main map is a list of streets with the number of houses and inhabitants in each. [John Townley adds the following information: The following advertisement first appeared in Aris's Birmingham Gazette on February 19, 1750: ‘This Day is Published PROPOSALS For PUBLISHING PLANS OF THE CITY of COVENTRY, and TOWN of BIRMINGHAM, With a MAP of the County of WARWICK. Engraved by T.JEFFERYS, Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince, Engraver and Printseller, the Corner of St. Martin's Lane, near Charing-Cross, where the Drawings may be seen. The PLANS from SURVEYS accurately taken, By SAMUEL BRADFORD. I. THESE PLANS, which exhibit every Street, Lane, Yard, Garden, and the Ground Plot of the Outhouses, Barns, &c, Divisions of the Wards in the City, and of the Parishes within the Town, will be exactly engraved, and printed each on a large Sheet of fine Paper. II. The MAP, exactly describing the Boundaries and Divisions; all the Rivers, Brooks, and Rivulets; the Roads, with the Distances in computed and measured Miles from Place to Place; Parish Churches, Chapels, depopulated Places, Seats of Nobility and Gentry, Chaces, Parks, King's Houses, Baronies, Monasteries, Castles, Roman Ways, Stations, Battles, Garrisons, &c. will be accurately drawn, and neatly engraved from a large Survey, made by HENRY BEIGHTON, F.R.S. and corrected by the Assistance of several skilful Persons residing in the County. III. The Plans will be decorated with proper Ornaments, and illustrated with the antient and present State, Government, Manufactures, and Number of Houses, and Inhabitants, carefully taken in both Places, the new Buildings in Birmingham since 1730 distinguished, and the Map will be ornamented with a Plan of the County Town. IV. The Price to Subscribers is Six Shillings, of which Half to be paid at the Delivery of the Plan of Coventry, which will be in this Month, and the Remainder on the Delivery of the Plan of Birmingham, and Map of Warwickshire, which will be about Midsummer next. V. That after the Subscription is closed, the Price to Non-Subscribers will be Seven Shillings. Subscriptions are taken in by Mr. Samuel Bradford, T. Aris, Printer, Mess. Warren and Woollaston, Booksellers, Mr. Jackson, Printseller, and Mr. Jefferys in Digbeth, Birmingham; Mess. Rattan, Brooks and Jopson in Coventry; Mr. Hopkinson in Warwick; Mr. Keating at Stratford on Avon; Mr. Wilde in Stourbridge; Mr. Moseley in Kidderminster; Mrs. Unett in Wolverhampton; Mr. Haslewood in Bridgnorth; and Mr. Eddowes, in Salop.’[The map of Warwickshire was apparently not published.] Samuel Bradford was born April 11, 1725, son of Henry Bradford, a Quaker timber merchant.]

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Samuel Bradford [sv], Thomas Jeffreys, Corner of St Martins Lane, Charing Cross, London [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.7 x 60.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican are pictorial.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

(pictorial), cross

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards, scattered tree cover: [Avenues].

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

British Library K.Top.42.79, K.Top.42.80, Bodleian Library Gough maps Warwickshire 11, CUL Maps.aa.89.75.2, Birmingham Archives MAL/14002; British Library Maps 1.d.15 [1884]; British Library Maps 175.k.4, Bodleian Library (E)c17:70 Birmingham (60), CUL Atlas.2.96.68, Dudley Archives 2468.E [1968: in Birmingham before 1800].

Industry:

misc, warehousing, metallurgical processing, timber: Brass House, Slitting Mill, Tea Ware House.

River and foreshore features:

sluices: [Flood Gates].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

etc, baths/spa, theatres

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': To right of title, what seems to be an ironworker looks up at a youth looking over the side of the cartouche.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: south views of St Martins and St Philips by S. Bradford.

Miscellaneous service buildings:

[Livery Stable].

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Machine, Bridge Machin [sic: both are presumably weighing machines].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

building ground

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560