Lickey
Hills on the one inch New Series Sheet 183 from 1895.
Notice that what is now called Cofton Hill and Cofton
Hackett was then called Coston Hill and Coston Hackett.
Most likely it was a mis-reading of the surveyor's (or his transcriber's)
handwriting so the "f" in Cofton was mis-read
as a long "s".In handwriting the only difference
between "f'" and the long "s'"
is that the horizontal bar that crosses the vertical line of "f'",
but should not cross the
vertical line of a long 's'. In print, the two letters can easily
be confused, if the printing quality is less
than perfect. In manuscript form, there is often doubt as to what
was intended.
This is corrected in the 1909 version
The map was printed in black and it was common, as here, to to colour in the map roads, railways, water and other features. This was usually done with watercolour. The pinkness just to the left of Obelisk is where the paint has smudged.
There is now a single road in Lickey called Lickey Square but then The Square was an area to the south west of the Lickey church.