Warwickshire-Birmingham-1811 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19374

Map Date:

4.1811

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:

'...Map of the town and parish of Birmingham, shewing the boundaries as perambulated... in... 1810...'

Comments on map:

Boundaries noted as perambulated by the Commissioners in 1810; map is dated April 1811; rather rough-looking. Bottom left are notes on hackney carriage fares. [John Townley supplies the following additional information: ‘The following advertisement first appeared in Aris's Birmingham Gazette on 15 April 1811: MAP OF BIRMINGHAM: This Day is Published, by John Kempson A NEW MAP of the Town and Parish of BIRMINGHAM, describing particularly the Boundaries of the same, as Perambulated by the Commissioners of the Birmingham Street Acts in the Year 1810. The above may be had at the principal Booksellers, Price FIVE SHILLINGS.’ John Kempson's address is given as Cherry Street in trade directories of 1812 and 1815 but given as Parade in 1816. 'John Kempson respectfully informs his Friends and the Public , that he has removed his office from Cherry Street to the Timber Wharf SATURDAY BRIDGE, ... Birmingham, Nov. 25, 1815’: Aris's Birmingham Gazette, Nov 27, 1815. John Kempson died on 16 March, 1846, aged 64.]

Scale:

1:10,080

Map-maker:

John Kempson [sv, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46.0 x 69.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc, town hall/administrative: 'Public Office'.

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

misc: Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Archives MAP/384603, Birmingham Central Library, CUL Maps.aa.18.G.45 [1811]; Birmingham Archives MAL 65453 [c.1815]; Birmingham Archives Map 174791, Map 174791A [c.1815-18]; Birmingham Archives MAP/45209, MAP/148157, MAP/518846 & MAP/589906 [c.1818-19]; Birmingham Archives Map 308391 [c.1819]; Birmingham Archives MAL/14009 [c.1820-25]; [PRO] Library [‘1811’: in Conrad Gill, History of Birmingham, I, Oxford, 1952]; British Library Maps 1.d.15 [1884]; Bodleian Library G.A.Warwick 8o 436 [1818/1969: in Wrightson's new triennial directory of Birmingham: Frank Graham].

Industry:

uncertain, engineering, food/drink, glass: 'Mill'.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Fields with owners shown around outer boundary].

Waterbodies:

shown

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Commissioners of the Street Acts.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560