Yorks-Middlesbrough-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20155

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/18, f.99.

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Middlesbrough

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ496203

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 4820

Map title:

'Middlesbro'. 1840.'

Comments on map:

Streets, plots and docks only.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.0 x 45.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, other: Railways and some new streets red, laid-out plots edged green, some streets orange-pink or blue, other areas tinted pink: unclear why.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Buildings are shown, but there are very few of them.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/18.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, ship yards, paper/print, warehousing

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations: Rail layouts look incomplete.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1852

1:1056

1:10,560

1853-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560