Worcestershire-Kidderminster-1835
CBTM:
20191
Map Date:
1835
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 5800 (27)
Historic county:
Worcestershire
Town name:
Kidderminster
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO830765
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 8175
Map title:
'Plan of the borough of Kidderminster in the county of Worcester'.
Comments on map:
All areas numbered, and very dark photocopy, so not as informative as it might be. Dating from BLML catalogue, which says that it is 1:2880, and that the original is at Kidderminster Library; latter visited 9:7:03, and only has its own murky photocopy, made by the BM. The apparent contemporaneity of this with the 1:1584 Mathews [Exeter 20906] is curious. (Scale of Kidderminster copy checked against BM scale.)
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Broadfield [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
76.5 x 114
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, other: Extension of borough.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Ground-plan of interior of parish church.
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Extension of borough.
Known copies of map:
BLML maps 5800(27), Kidderminster Library local studies [photo of original reputedly in Kidderminster Public Library].
Industry:
engineering, textiles
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title has ? church ruins as background.
Borders:
decorative: Half-quatrefoil type.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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