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Worcestershire-Dudley-1863

CBTM:
20918
Map Date:
1863
Repository reference:
Dudley Archives 1265 A
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:
'Plan of the parish of Dudley in the county of Worcester. 1863.'
Comments on map:
'Reduced from the Dudley Local Board of Health plan surveyed in the year 1848.' This has similar fine penning to Exeter 20911. Built-up part shown as streets and frontages only, with the most dense net of spot heights imaginable. 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:
Buildings, roads, water, estate: Multi-colouring, possibly estate: cf Exeter 20910-12, but more elaborate.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
extra-parochial
Known copies of map:
Dudley Archives 1265A.
Industry:
engineering, uncertain: Works.
Railways:
routes, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways
Antiquities:
Castle.
Waterbodies:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
uncertain: On north pointer tip: possibly Earl of Dudley.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Brewery.
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: To 0.1 ft: very dense.
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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