Warwickshire-Birmingham-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22238

Map Date:

? 1820

Repository reference:

BOL Johnson f.1544

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'.

Comments on map:

Faces title of A concise history of Birmingham, fifth edition, Birmingham: R. Jabet [pr], n.d.: Bodleian Library says c.1820. [Information from John Townley suggests that the map may actually date from c.1807-8: a plan of similar dimensions and scale to those quoted here was used in [James] Bisset's Magnificent Guide or Grand Copper Plate Directory for the Town of Birmingham [1808] and in William Hutton's A Concise History of Birmingham [1808], though none of the advertisements for Bisset's publication which appear in Aris's Birmingham Gazette (11 and 25 November and 7 December 1807, and 25 April 1808) mention inclusion of a map of Birmingham. This map shows features that suggest a date between 1807 and 1808. ]

Scale:

1:20,000*

Map-maker:

J. Sheriff, Oldswinford, late of the Crescent, Birmingham [dr], Tolley, Birming [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

11.5 x 17.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type), watermills

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Archives MAP/72835 [?1807-8: not proved to be this map: see contextual comments above]; Bodleian Library Johnson f.1544 [?1820].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink: Breweries prominent.

Leisure and entertainment:

etc, theatres

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Churches and schools on scroll with trees and classical temple in background; streets apparently on book-rest.

Symbolic elements:

Trees, temple: in cartouche.

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1875-6

1:500

1:2500