Yorks-Pudsey-1875 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20278

Map Date:

1875

Repository reference:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 97B50

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Pudsey

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE224335

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 2532

Map title:

'Block plan of the township of Pudsey, shewing the roads, bye-roads, streets & watercourses. 1875.'

Comments on map:

No field boundaries, and buildings are not at all detailed for the scale. The map is most notable for its attention to the third dimension.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Sam'l Smith, Surveyor & Valuer, Bradford [author], S.O. Bailey, Lithographer & Engraver, Leeds Road, Bradford [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

108 x 86

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, other: Hand-coloured; township boundary picked out in pink.

Road names:

fragmentary

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: 'Church' in gothic: some chapels possibly omitted: also 'Moravian Establishment'.

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society 97.B.50.

Industry:

textiles, uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines, misc: Viaduct. Great Northern Railway's Pudsey branch seems to be projected rather than realised.

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

contours, spot heights: Contours at 50 feet intervals.

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560