Worcestershire-Dudley-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20915

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

Dudley Archives 904 C

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Dudley

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO946903

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9389

Map title:

'A map of the borough of Dudley in the county of Worcester.'

Comments on map:

Bottom right are 'Observations', as to being detached part of Worcestershire, and Castle extra-parochial area in Staffordshire.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Billingsley Morris, Surveyor, Hampstead Row, Handsworth [author], Wm Daniels, 83 Lower Temple St, Birmingham [lith, pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.7 x 70.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings, transport, other: Churches, schools, railroads, footpaths, coal pits.

Colouring:

other: Churches, schools: red.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown, tunnel

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Dudley Archives 904C, also 1863 DD, 1866 DD; RGS Eng & Wales S.359(4) [copy, q.v.]; BL 10293.r.17/16, BOL (E)C17:62(30), CUL S696.b.97.109, Atlas.1.97.13, Atlas 1.97.22, RGS Eng & Wales S.359 [book in library, 512.G] [1970: in V.L. Davies & H. Hyde, Dudley and the Black Country 1760-1860, 10 sheets, Dudley: Public Library, 1970].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, lime/cement, metallurgical processing

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Priory ruins, Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: Castle Court.

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

coal

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560