Worcestershire-Dudley-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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