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Worcestershire-Dudley-1883

CBTM:
17005
Map Date:
? 1883
Repository reference:
Dudley Archives G/DU 5/1
Historic county:
Worcestershire
Town name:
Dudley
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO952902
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 9592
Comments on map:
32 sheets plus index plan. Includes parish of Dudley, Castle Hill. Mostly 1:528: three sheets at 1:2640, plus index (roads blue, railways red, Dudley country district banded pink). Surveyors named on cover by not on maps proper. Evidently derives from the 'lost' 1:528 of c.1876: like the other 1883 rating maps it is on irregular sheet lines.
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
Hedley Mason & Hedley, Surveyors & Valuers, Birmingham [authors].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
76 x 52 [x 33].
Number of parts:
33
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally, house numbers
Buildings:
shown, archways, bay windows, steps to buildings
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, municipal depots
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Dudley Archives G/DU 5/1.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, glass, lime/cement, textiles, warehousing, uncertain, misc: Works, Manure Works, Warehouse; several works, notably on sheet 11, identified by name, e.g. Waddams Pool Works A. Harper & Sons, The Firs Works.
Railways:
routes, named, rails, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle Ruins.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Map material:
tracing linen
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Buffery [?: evidently industrial], Old Dock Water Engine.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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