Warwickshire-Birmingham: Edgbaston-1843 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

17003

Map Date:

? 1843

Repository reference:

Birmingham Central Library, Archives, 660709

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Birmingham: Edgbaston

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP050850

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Comments on map:

Has Tithe Commission stamp, 30 Dec 1843: tithe map is 1851, of residual area only. 660710 is Book of Reference, [presented by Superintendent Rating Officer], received by Poor Law Board 2 Jan 1844, with headings: Nos. on Plan; Description of the Property, Names of Fields, &c; Mode of Cultivation; Quantity a.r.p.; Names of Occupiers; Names of Owners. (695: Description: 'Rope walk and Shed'. Mode of Cultivation: 'Ropewalk'.) Map has a rather clean-cut appearence, almost suggesting lithographing.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

240 x 167

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, bay windows

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Central Library, Archives, 660709 [Book of Reference at 660710].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments: [Monument: just off Monument Lane].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Five Ways.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560