Staffordshire-Leek-1857
CBTM:
16208
Map Date:
1857
Repository reference:
Staffordshire RO D3283
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Leek
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ985565
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 9956
Comments on map:
Made under the Leek Improvement Act, 1855. Originally in one sheet, about 350 cm square, now cut up into 22 sections.
Scale:
1:600
Map-maker:
Thos Dale, C.E. [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
350 x 350
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, boundaries, land-use, other: Bench marks and spot heights red.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water works, sewers, misc: Syphon, Dye Water Sewer; sewers red and water blue.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Limit of Improvement District (a radius).
Known copies of map:
Staffordshire RO D.3283.
Industry:
textiles
Railways:
routes, earthworks, rails, passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Map material:
parchment
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, spot heights: To 0.1 ft.
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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