Yorks-Middlesbrough-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20014

Map Date:

7.7.1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/540

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

Comments on map:

Friend Sharp betrays his Quakerism by his mode of dating. Neat map, but lacks descriptions other than of places of worship and associated with docks.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Isaac Sharp [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 68

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, wharfs, misc: Warehouse.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/540 (1).

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, ship yards, furniture/pottery

Railways:

routes, rails, passenger stations

Map material:

tracing linen

Other land-uses & land-cover:

building ground: [Numerous numbered plots, evidently awaiting development].

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