Yorks-Bradford: Manningham-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20219

Map Date:

1839

Repository reference:

Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, MAN.1839.DIX

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Bradford: Manningham

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE****

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1633

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Manningham situate in the township of Bradford in the county of York copied from the plan made by Mr Thomas Dixon in 1839. W.C. Atkinson, Surveyor, Manningham, Bradford, 1877.'

Comments on map:

Purpose unclear: fields aren't numbered, but what other purpose could there have been in 1839 than tithe or rating?

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Thomas Dixon [sv], W.C. Atkinson, Surveyor, Manningham, Bradford, [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

170 x 106

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bradford Library MAN.1839.DIX [1877 copy].

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain: Mills.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits: 'Engine'.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

spoil heaps: Pit Hill.

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:1056

1:10,560

1889-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560