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Warwickshire-Birmingham-1779

CBTM:
20204
Map Date:
1779
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 the parish of Birmingham taken in the year 1779 by John Snape.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photo-reduction in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884: scale and dimensions not corrected. Fields numbered; no reference to hand.
Scale:
1:9504
Map-maker:
John Snape [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
39 x 61
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Canals:
shown, offices, wharf
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries
Known copies of map:
Birmingham Central Library [original]; BLML Maps 1.d.15 [1884: in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, lime/cement
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title is on slab, propped against urn, with mercury's stick with twinned snakes; barrels and trees in background.
Symbolic elements:
Urn, mercury's stick with twinned snakes, barrels, trees: in title.
Reference system:
squaring: 25-chain.
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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