Warwickshire-Birmingham-1832
CBTM:
20208
Map Date:
1832
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 5545 (18)
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, with an alphabetical list of the streets, churches, chapels, principal inns, coach offices &c.'
Comments on map:
Street index is letterpress, as are Post Office Regulations [arrivals and dispatches], hackney fares, list of Public Institutions, Inns, and 'Principal waggon warehouses'. Map is rather rough-looking.
Scale:
1:7920
Map-maker:
James Drake, New Street [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
43.0 x 53.5 [overall: map 33.3 x 38.3].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
public buildings emphasised, some or all buildings omitted.
Mills:
(pictorial), windmills
Canals:
shown, offices, wharf
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: 'Meeting' is frequently used.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
misc, dispensaries, hospitals, workhouses: Asylum.
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
British Library Maps 5545(18) [1832]; British Library Maps 1.aa.21 [1835?]. [There is also an 1831 version; the 1832 version is reproduced in Paul Leslie Line & Adrian Baggett,, Maps & Sketches from Georgian & Early Victorian Birmingham, 2013, pp.108-115, and as a facsimile sheet map, ‘Drake's Street Plan and Index, Birmingham - 1832’, 2013: information from John Townley].
Industry:
uncertain, engineering, food/drink: Mills.
Leisure and entertainment:
etc, baths/spa, libraries/newsrooms, theatres
Service and professional:
insurance offices
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Fragmentary residents on outskirts].
Road transport:
coach office, wagon office: Listed in index rather than indicated on map.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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