Warwickshire-Birmingham-1778 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20203

Map Date:

1778

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1.d.15

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:

'Plan of Birmingham survey'd by Thos. Hanson 1778.'

Comments on map:

Originally recorded from photo-reduction (to 60 x 41 cm) in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884: scale and dimensions corrected from John Townley’s data. Top left is descriptive note on town. [John Townley adds the following information: ‘The following advertisement first appeared in Aris's Birmingham Gazette on October 5, 1778: ‘This Day is Published, (By PEARSON and ROLLASON, Printers of this Paper; and may be had of the Booksellers within the Circuit of it; and of their Newsmen,) The PLAN of BIRMINGHAM. Price 7s. 6d. PLAIN and 10s. 6d. COLOURED.’

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Thos Hanson [sv], T. Roe [eng], Pearson & Rollaston, Birmingham [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

106 x 74

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(pictorial), windmills

Canals:

shown, wharf

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards, scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

British Library K.Top.42.81, Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham Archives MAL/14004, Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 Birmingham (7), Warwickshire RO CR 1086/5 [original]; British Library Maps 1.d.15 [in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 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: six maps in the Local Studies Library, Birmingham Reference Library, Birmingham Public Libraries, 1968].

Industry:

misc, bricks/tiles, engineering, metallurgical processing, rope walk, timber: Slitting Mill.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Symbols of industry around title: ship behind, barrels and box to left, beehive on top, book, mercury-wings-with-twinned-snakes, bust below, press and gears to right.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: south views of St Martin and St Mary: bottom left, small views of ten other churches and notable buildings.

Symbolic elements:

Symbols of industry around title: ship, barrels, box, beehive, book, mercury-wings-with-twinned-snakes, bust, press, gears.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560