Yorks-Bradford: Allerton-1884 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16726

Map Date:

1884

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/30/1-103

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Thornbury, Bolton, Bradford: Allerton, Tyersall, Heaton

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE142357

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1633

Comments on map:

An impeccable pastiche of Ordnance Survey style, laid out as a continuation of Exeter 16725, (nominally involving double numbering, though sheets are only completed to township boundaries, thereby entailing some half-sheets). Apparently all sheets extant: some at least in two copies, with and without author (purple stamp) and date. The one thing missing is any altitude information. BBD 9/1/29/186 is an index, added in manuscript to a plan of Bradford borough of 1882. Sampled, using Allerton and Heaton sheets. A lot of the sheets would have been very open: cf Exeter 16670, 16673, 16676 and 16677, which derive from this survey. The map was clearly designed to fit together with Exeter 16725, but there are detail differences, e.g. the treatment of vegetation.

Scale:

1:360

Map-maker:

J.S. Clifton, Surveyor &c, Manchester [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

197 x 129 [x 103] [about 73.0 x 46.5 within neat lines].

Number of parts:

103

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme: Roads sienna and grey.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, steps to buildings: Glass houses are cross-hatched blue.

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, lamps, reservoirs, sanitary hazards: Pumps, Trough, Well, Manure Pump, Cistern; abbreviations: R.S., S.G., V., S.V., S.T., A.G., C.S., LP, FP [no dots], TP [?: they are found at frequent intervals along roads: evidently posts of some sort].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds, misc: Croquet Lawn.

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township, boundary mereings

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/30/1-103.

Industry:

smithing, oil/soap etc, timber, uncertain, misc: Mills, Boiler House.

River and foreshore features:

springs

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

letter-boxes, post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pig-keeping

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stone (dot with distances).

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:1056

1:10,560

1889-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560