Warwickshire-Birmingham-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20206

Map Date:

? 1855

Repository reference:

Warwickshire RO CR 1086/11

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:

'Street map of the Borough of Birmingham published by order of the Council reduced from the survey now in progress under the direction of F. Pigott Smith, C.E. Surveyor to the Corporation.'

Comments on map:

Dated 1855 in Plans of Birmingham and vicinity, ancient and modern, Birmingham: Public Works Committee, Town Council, 1884, but the date there is an addition. '1855' seems plausible on the grounds of the railway information, and is additionally supported by the reference to the survey now in progress (i.e. the 1:528 [Exeter 17008]. Street index inset on right, with note on how to use the squaring.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

F. Pigott Smith [dir], Day & Son [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

123 x 83

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown, wharf

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses, misc: Asylum.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Central Library, BOL C17:70 Birmingham (22), CUL Maps.89.85.1, Warwickshire RO CR 1086/11 [1855]; BLML Maps 1.d.15 [1855/1884]; BLML Maps 9.b.31 [dated 1862]; CUL Maps.89.86.1 [1866].

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations: Shows the incomplete viaduct from the Great Western Railway as completed.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

botanic gardens

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Oddfellows, learned societies

Monuments:

Monuments

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Reference system:

squaring: 0.5-mile.

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560