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Warwickshire-Birmingham-1781

CBTM:
19375
Map Date:
1781
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
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 1781'.
Comments on map:
In W. Hutton, An history of Birmingham, Birmingham: Pearson & Rollaston, 2nd edition, 1783; with introduction by Christopher R. Elrington, East Ardsley: EP Publishing, 1976, f.p.43. Statistical notes ('The noted town of...'), top right. [John Towley adds the following information: The following advertisement first appeared in Aris's Birmingham Gazette on Monday, April 23, 1781, p.3: ‘[Pearson & Rollason] where now may be had, just Published, NEW and CORRECTED Impressions of the LARGE PLAN of the TOWN of BIRMINGHAM, Price 7s.6d. PLAIN, or 10s.6d. COLOURED’: further advertisements on 31:12:1781, 11:02:1782, 17:02:1783, 10:03:1783, 28:04:1783 and 20:10:1783. The following advertisement first appeared in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette on August 8, 1785: BIRMINGHAM DIRECTORY This Day is published, Price 2s., or with a Plan of the Town of Birmingham 2s 6d. An ENTIRE NEW WORK, taken from personal Application, and alphabetically arranged By CHARLES PYE To which is added, a List of the COACHES and WAGONS that go out from and return to Birmingham. N.B. Be careful to ask for the new Directory, and observe that the Trades, or Callings, of the Inhabitants are printed in Italics. .... Birmingham: Printed by Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, Pater-noster Row, London.’ Thomas Hanson died at his home in Bath Row on 22 September, 1796.]
Scale:
1:6732
Map-maker:
Thos. Hanson [sv], R. Hancock [eng], Pearson & Rollaston [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.0 x 24.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
(pictorial), windmills
Canals:
shown, wharf
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Undescribed black buildings may be other denominations.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Known copies of map:
British Library Maps 5545(1), Birmingham Archives MAP/174790, CUL 7474.c.7 [1781]; Birmingham Archives MAP/72831 [1785]; 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]; Bodleian Library Gough Warwick 8, CUL VIII.8.25, TNA [PRO] Library [in W. Hutton, A history of Birmingham, Birmingham: Pearson & Rollaston, 2nd edn, 1783]; Bodleian Library G.A.Warw. 4o 282 [1783/1977: Hutton, facsimile by EP Publishing].
Industry:
uncertain, metallurgical processing, rope walk: Steam Mill.
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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