Yorks-Middlesbrough-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20158

Map Date:

1848

Repository reference:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/13

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:

'Plan of the Middlesbro' estate in the North Riding of the county of York J. Richmond 1848'.

Comments on map:

Presumably the parent of Exeter 20156: 'rural' fields numbered with acreages. Residential buildings may be omitted in the town.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

J. Richmond [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

196 x 131

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

roads, water, uncertain: Multi-colour bands around fields; town plots tinted pink or very light grey.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Works and public buildings shown, but residential buildings may be omitted in the town.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Raised Platform, Ballast Wharf, Timber Pond, Timber Bond Yard.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Defence and military:

coastguard

Known copies of map:

Teesside Archives U/OME 8/13 [2 copies].

Industry:

ship yards, uncertain, furniture/pottery

Railways:

routes, named

Magnetic data:

diagram: 'Magnetic Meridian'.

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