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Title

A Plan of the Navigable Canal from Birmingham in the County of Warwick, to the Canal at Aldersley, near Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford; with a Collateral Cut to the Coal Mines at Wednesbury.
Description

Small map from a contemporary periodical
Date

1771
Names

Scale

2 miles/inch approx
Size in inches

11 x 7
Medium/format

Engraving on paper, folded.
Source

Gentlemans Magazine, October 1771
Notes

This is perhaps the earliest map to show the Birmingham Canal as building (it was opened in stages 1769-73) incorporating the realignments resulting from abolition of the proposed tunnel at Smethwick.  This successful waterway was much altered and improved in later years.