This detailed plan of Kidderminster tells us much about the streets and buildings that were already in existence by 1835. The town continually evolved and expanded after 1835 but it was not until the 1960s that we saw the construction developments that have altered and removed large swathes of the town centre that had existed largely unchanged since 1835 - apart from piecemeal small scale building.

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Unusually the map is orientated with the North axis pointing to the left.

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A very similar map by Broadfield, also dated 1835, can be inspected in Kidderminster library. The plot numbers marked on both maps seem to be identical but there are minor differences in the shapes of some buildings and names allocated to them. No apportionment list associated with these maps seems to have survived

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The Mathews plan is held by the Worcestershire Archive at the Hive in Worcester. We do not have a copy of the entire map but it has been copied in sections by hand-held photography in overlapping rows and labelled Left to Right starting at the bottom left hand corner. So A3 L to R is the bottom right corner and G1 L to R is the top left corner. The photographs were taken with a hand-held camera and there is inevitably some variation of scale from area to area.

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Each map section can be accessed and downloaded (for non-commercial uses) by clicking on the appropriate links: