Yorks-Middlesbrough-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20167

Map Date:

12.1842

Repository reference:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/8

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'.'

Comments on map:

Reference indicates that the purpose of the map was to show lands sold, mortgaged, or intended to be retained unincumbered. Quaker surveyor, using numbered months.

Scale:

1:5940

Map-maker:

W. Sowerby Jun. [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.0 x 43.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Colours and shadings showing sales, mortgages, etc.

Colouring:

other: Sales, mortgages, etc.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Works and rural buildings shown.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Dock Platform: staiths in plan, but not described.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Known copies of map:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/8 [1845 version at 8/9] [original]; YAS 96.C.68 [photo].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, uncertain, furniture/pottery, misc: Sail Cloth.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified: ['Derelict Mud Land' only].

Gardens:

shown: [Two annotated blocks of stipple].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

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