Description:This map is entitled 'Plan of Certain Highways in the Parishes of Stoke-upon-Trent and Trentham in the County of Stafford, with the proposed diversions of such highways.'
You may notice that the bottom of the map is signed 'George E Hamilton, Civil Engineer Wolverhampton'.
Hamilton was a turnpike road surveyor for Drayton to Newcastle-under-Lyme Road Trust, and is known to have lived in Wolverhampton between 1836 and 1844.
Hamilton uses a scale for the plan called 'Chains' which is the unit of measurement used for the survey of public lands as prescribed by law.
On the 'Butterton Road Plan' notes on the left hand side, roads are shown to be measured in chains, links and yards.
The colours on the map have faded but you might just be able to make out the roads are shaded different colours, the key top left tells us that:
Roads to be stopped - blue
Roads to be unaltered (not turnpike) - red
New roads - yellow
Turnpike roads - brown.
Hamilton has drawn a proposed new road on the right hands side of the plan.
Places detailed on the plan include Hanchurch and Butterton Hall, farm and gardens.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund