Staffordshire-Leek-1838
CBTM:
20802
Map Date:
1838
Repository reference:
Staffordshire RO D.3359/Map 39
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Leek
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ985565
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 9956
Map title:
'Plan of Leek 1838.'
Comments on map:
Bottom left: usual table of markets, fairs, population and post-mile distances.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Edinr [sv], Turner & Co. Edinr [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70.2 x 47.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
Staffordshire RO D3359/Map 39, D3359/Map 40, D3359/Map 41 [1838]; BOL G.A.Staffs 4o 170 [copied 1899 by R. Ewan, in Ray Poole, Yesterday's town: Leek, Barracuda Books]; BOL G.A.Staffs c. 20/L5 [reduced copy, in M.N. Miller, Leek Maps, Local History Source Book L.5, Staffs CC Education Dept, 1970].
Industry:
chemicals, food/drink, rope walk, textiles, timber
Magnetic data:
diagram: Top right.
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [In more open parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: [Unusually numerous, even for a mid-19th century country town].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1876-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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