Yorks-Leeds: Hunslet-1791 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16783

Map Date:

1791

Repository reference:

Leeds Central Library, Family & Local History section, 'Hunslet 1791, 1st copy'

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Leeds: Hunslet

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE305315

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 3034

Comments on map:

Made to accompany a valuation for poor rate, now at West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds], LO/HU/4. Map presented to Leeds Libraries by the guardians of the dissolved Hunset Union, 1925, 'for Public Reference'. Lots of vegetation oranament: a 'busy' map.

Scale:

1:2772

Map-maker:

I. Johnson & I. Sedgwick [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

127 x 104

Number of parts:

2

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Leeds Central Library, Family & local history section, 'Hunslet 1791, 1st copy' [Despite reference, this is the only 'original'].

Industry:

distilling, engineering, food/drink, furniture/pottery

Railways:

named, industrial tramways/waggonways: Mr Brandling's Coal Road: shown by pecked lines.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

coal: With Fire Engine [steam engine at the coal pit].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

River with three boats going upstream with very small single sails.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560