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Worcestershire-Dudley-1857

CBTM:
20913
Map Date:
1857
Repository reference:
Dudley Archives 845 B
Historic county:
Worcestershire
Town name:
Dudley
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SO946903
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 9389
Map title:
'Plan of the parish of Dudley in the county of Worcester. Executed by Henry C. Roper, 1857.'
Comments on map:
Whilst part of suburbs are mapped in detail, the rest of the town, including all the historic core, is no more than frontages and division-junctions. Those tenements etc which are mapped are numbered: reference not to hand.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
Henry C. Roper [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
300 x 362
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Railway earthworks and parks and wood shaded green, rails infilled grey, station platforms sienna.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: [Old and new town halls].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Dudley Archives 845 B.
Industry:
engineering, metallurgical processing, uncertain: Various dots-and-circles: possibly kilns of some sort.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Priory ruins, Castle: in gothic.
Waterbodies:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills: Numerous.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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