Worcestershire-Dudley-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20911

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

Dudley Archives C.1490

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Dudley

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO946903

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9389

Map title:

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

Comments on map:

This is similar to Exeter 20910, but is rather later: perhaps 1840+, with similarly fine penning. Tenements numbered outside closely-built parts: no reference to hand. Map is otherwise rather lacking in text.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

John Bateman, Surveyor, Dudley [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

93 x 126

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners: Trustees of Earl of Dudley's mining rights green; ditto's lands, pink.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown, tunnel

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

county: [Part of Staffordshire].

Known copies of map:

Dudley Archives C.1490.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, uncertain: Works.

Antiquities:

Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Evidently generalised in most built-up part.

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560