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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