Lancashire-Todmorden-1823
CBTM:
16810
Map Date:
1823
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] MP 18
Historic county:
Lancashire
Town name:
Todmorden
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SD936242
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SD 9024
Comments on map:
Rating assumed. Total areas given for each owner.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Thos Hampson, Surveyor &c, Rochdale [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
127 x 187
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
roads, water
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown, Locks, warehousing
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] MP18 [entry duplicates Exeter 20250].
Industry:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': (1) scale and surveyor below columns, plumbline, 'corner' and similar builders' tools; (2) below title are a house with mullion-and-transom windows, a church with tower, and other houses, in a landscape, all in shades of grey: is in fact of Todmorden Hall and Church, seen roughly from the Golden Lion Inn.
Commons:
shown
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Two globes, surveying and building instruments above scale.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Old Road.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms, uncertain: With Credo et amo: in north pointer tip.
Estate boundary ownership:
shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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