A highly detailed town plan of Nottingham. Nottingham was a flourishing city in the mid-nineteenth century, bolstered by the Industrial Revolution. The first lace machines had been brought to the city in 1809, and it was soon the centre of British lace manufacturing. Unfortunately, the rapid expansion of population (it had increased from 28,801 in 1801, to 50,220 by 1831) required to support this industrial expansion created huge swathes of slums, known as the worst in the British Empire. After the local landowner, the Duke of Newcastle, refused to endorse the Reform Act in 1831, inhabitants of these slums rioted and burned Nottingham Castle; the castle would not be restored until 1875.

Edward Staveley architect and mapmaker (1768-1837) was appointed survey to the Nottingham Corporation in 1796; Staveley's appointment would be the starting point for the formal architecture and panning of the city. Although responsible for several buildings in Nottingham, only the Baptist Chapel, on George Street (1815), now the 'Arts Theatre' and the Plumptre Hospital, Plumptre Square, survive. He is best known along his fellow architect Henry Moses Wood (1788-1867) for their great survey of the city, the present plan.

Rare Copac and Worldcat record only two institutional example: Nottingham University and Cambridge University.

Scale: 34.5 inches to one statute mile.