Warwickshire-Birmingham-1828
CBTM:
20210
Map Date:
25.3.1828
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 197.d.2
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 Birmingham engraved from a minute trigonometrical survey made in the years 1824 and 1825'.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
Beilby, Knott & Beilby [sv], W.R. Gardner, Harpur St, Red Lion Square, London [eng], J. Pigott Smith, Surveyor & Engineer, Birmingham [? pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
129 x 136
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
fragmentary
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Quite detailed in less built-up parts, including outhouses.
Turnpikes:
shown: Includes pecked lines showing new line of turnpike from Pershore to Birmingham.
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Canals:
shown, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Cock Pump.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, deaf & dumb, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Asylum.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 197.d.2, BOL C17:70 Birmingham d.3; Birmingham Central Library (also a photo-redn); CUL Maps.AA.89.82.1- ; BLML Maps 1.d.15 [1884: in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884].
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, rope walk, uncertain, warehousing, misc: [Repry for Horses & Carriages], Mill, Gun Barrel Proof House.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries: Also annotation 'Small Gardens'.
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram, dated value: Magnetic diagram for 1825, with values in 1700, 1725, 1750 and 1800 given by graduations of part-circle.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Landowners in the more open parts. One empty area is annotated 'Elliott Refusd. Admittance', another 'Refused Admittance', but these are exceptional: evidently the lack of a Survey Act didn't impede work elsewhere. 'Beilby & Knotts' appears in Bordesley, on the edge of building].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Inset top left: 'Plan of the town of Birmingham taken in the year 1731'.
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
statues: [Nelsons Statue].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Rt Hon William, Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Lewisham, etc, 'The zealous promoter of the interests of the town and liberal patron of its public institutions'.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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