Worcestershire-Stourport-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20902

Map Date:

1835

Repository reference:

Worcestershire RO BA 1569/2 s.261.94

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Stourport

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SO812713

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8175

Map title:

'Survey of the hamlet of Lower Mitton in the county of Kidderminster and county of Worcester.'

Comments on map:

'John Kempson Surveyor 1827' bottom right; 'With additions and corrections to 1835 by John Broadfield Surveyor Kidderminster' is added at the end of the title, cutting into the drawing instruments. Fields and tenements numbered, but reference is incomplete, and in any case not all the buildings in the town are mapped, hence cover is treated as partial. Map is faded and damaged, and does not easily yield its content.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Kempson [sv], John Broadfield, Kidderminster [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

124 x 138

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Worcestershire RO BA 1569/2 s.261.94.

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Scale is surrounded by drawing instruments.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:2500

1:10,560