COLLECTION NAME:
Maps Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1211262
Reference Number:
Booker & Mills C375
Image Title:
Staffordshire and Worcestershire
Parent Work Title:
Plan shewing those portions of the mineral districts of South Staffordshire, East Worcestershire and North Warwickshire intersected by the Birmingham Canal Navigations
Creator:
Underwood, T
Creator Role:
Lithographer
Creator:
Hancox, John
Creator Role:
Surveyor
Date Created:
1866
Description:
Map: Staffordshire and Worcestershire. Largely monochrome but with rivers and canals in blue and railway lines in red. A note bottom left reads: 'Note: Birmingham Canal Navigation is colored Blue. L & N Wn Railway do. Red'. The map is in a simple square frame and depicts places, canals, rivers and roads. Wooded areas on the map are also shown. Bottom right is printed: 'Scale 1 Inch to a Statute Mile'. The large ornate title is bottom right. Underneath this is printed: 'John Hancox, Surveyor. Navigation Office. Birmm. 1866'. Bottom left is printed: ' T Underwood LITH Birmm.'
Language Name:
English
Language Code:
eng
Sub-Category:
Maps
Technique Used:
Printed
Medium:
Lithograph
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
17th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Warwickshire
Places Covered:
England: Worcestershire
Places Covered:
England: Staffordshire
Item Height:
630 mm
Item Width:
695 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Colonel Dudley Mills and Mr R.P.L. Booker, former owners
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions apply
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2012-02-07
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2012-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
