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Warwickshire-Birmingham-1864

CBTM:
23329
Map Date:
[1864]
Repository reference:
BL 10358.aa.17
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:
'Birmingham'.
Comments on map:
In Cornish';s strangers guide through Birmingham... and manufactories [cover: Cornish's guide to Birmingham and its manufactories, 1864], 13th edition, Birmingham: Cornish, n.d. [BM blue 10 OC 64], f.p.[1].
Scale:
1:19,800
Map-maker:
Cornish Brothers, Birmingham [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
43.5 x 31.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Numerous buildings emphasised but unnamed.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough
Known copies of map:
[BL 1400.a.18 [1852: no map]]; BOL G.A.Warw. 8o 24 [1855]; BL 10358.aa.17 [1864: Strangers guide, ed 12]; BL 10351.aaa.19 [1867: Strangers guide, ed 13].
Industry:
engineering
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations: Shows the 'incomplete' line as complete.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Oddfellows
Monuments:
Monuments
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Ordnance Survey's
1887-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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