Worcestershire-Stourbridge-1837
CBTM:
18327
Map Date:
1837
Repository reference:
Worcestershire RO BA 3993/2
Historic county:
Worcestershire
Town name:
Stourbridge
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO901844
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 9389
Map title:
'Plan of Stourbridge from actual survey 1837'.
Comments on map:
Lists of post miles and fairs, population, market day.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Edinburgh [sv], Turner & Co [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.2 x 66.8
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Canals:
shown, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Pump [out of town].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries, misc: Medicity Office.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
county, uncertain: Between Stourbridge and Swinford.
Known copies of map:
Worcestershire RO BA 3993/2 f.705:2 [original]; Dudley Archives reproduction, n.d. [repro].
Industry:
engineering, metallurgical processing, uncertain, misc: Works, Mill, Coach Work; others can be inferred from building morphology.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Larger and out-of-town owners, in Wood's usual style].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous service buildings:
Unexplained small rectangles in front of some buildings in the High Street.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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