Warwickshire-Birmingham-1865 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21462

Map Date:

[? 1865]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 4.e.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:

'Birmingham.'

Comments on map:

Plate 78 in Cassell's British Atlas..., London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d. [BM RD blue 3 MA 65.]

Scale:

1:19,495

Map-maker:

John Dower, F.R.G.S. [author], Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.7 x 31.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Numerous public buildings unnamed.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.3.86.6 [1863, Dispatch Atlas]; BLML Maps 4.e.11, BOL C15 a.2 [1864-7: Sheet 78 in Cassell's British Atlas..., London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d.]; CUL Atlas.3.86.10 [1869: G.W. Bacon [pb]: county atlas]; BLML Maps 11.c.30 [1883: George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; RGS 7.E.17 [1884: Pl 64 in New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon]; BLML Maps 37.e.31, BOL C15 c.1, National Archives of Scotland [West Register House, open access] [1885: Pl 64 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 19.c.2, BOL C15 c.3 [1889: Pl 63 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 33.c.2 [1891: G.W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1891]; BLML Maps 33.b.32 [1895: G.W. Bacon (ed), Commercial and library atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1895].

Industry:

engineering

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations: Includes the 'viaduct' line, complete.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc

Parkland:

botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Oddfellows

Monuments:

Monuments: [Nelson Mt.].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560