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Warwickshire 1835

Introduction - Description - Abbreviations - Guidelines - Maps - Home page

Introduction

Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Warwickshire in 1835, a tactile map with braille lettering, and a key to the tactile map. This page explains and describes the maps. Towns shown are parliamentary boroughs and polling places in 1835. The Description section says what is on the map. The Abbreviations section gives locations within the county. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Warwickshire have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county boundary is shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code WAR is in large letters in the top right corner of the map. Towns are large dots, with a 2 letter abbreviation of the town name nearby. Guidelines linking the towns are solid lines. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom right corner. Warwickshire is an inland county, about 35 miles east to west by about 50 miles north to south. There is a small detached rural part at the south-west of the county.
Directions on map - West is left, East is right, North is up, South is down.

Abbreviations and locations

In the list below the two letter abbreviation is given first, then the place name, then the position on the map within the county.

BI Birmingham, top left
CH Coleshill, top centre
CV Coventry, near top, centre
DU Dunchurch, middle right
HE Henley in Arden, middle left
KI Kineton, lower right
NU Nuneaton, top right
SO Southam, middle right
SS Shipston on Stour (Worcs), bottom, not on a guideline
ST Stratford on Avon, lower left
WA Warwick, middle centre

Guidelines

Guidelines are shown to link the places on the map. They are chosen to make it possible to describe the positions of places. In some cases the guidelines are roads, but generally they are arbitrary.

Three guidelines are shown, running across the county.

Top, from Birmingham near the western boundary, right to Coleshill, right to Nuneaton, down and left to Coventry, down and right to Dunchurch.
Middle, on the left of the line is Henley in Arden, right to Warwick, right to Southam, and on right out of the county.
Bottom, from the western boundary, right and down to Stratford on Avon, right and down to Kineton, on out of the county.
Shipston on Stour is not on a guideline. It is on a narrow southern extension below Kineton.

Maps

Graphic of Tactile map with braille names (pdf file)

Graphic of key in braille (pdf file)

Instructions for making a tactile map

Large print map (pdf file)

A single copy of this page can be made by or for any individual user. If you wish to make multiple copies or modifications, please contact David Hawgood - email david at hawgood dot com - I will normally give permission but I wish to know what use is being made of the maps. I also welcome comments.