Yorks-Baildon-1854
CBTM:
16569
Map Date:
1854
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/29/187-191
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Baildon
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE155395
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 1738
Comments on map:
Sheet 2, containing the village, is missing. Legend and title on Sheet 4; scales of links and yards on Sheet 5. There is also a traced version of Sheet 3, stamped by General Board of Health 17 May 1855, with sewers added.
Scale:
1:528
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
96 x 66 [x 5]
Number of parts:
5
Legends:
general legend: 'Reference': S.G., Sewer Grate; R.S., Rain Spout; K.S., Kitchin Sink; D.B., Dust Bin; S., Sink Stones; W.P., Water Plug; V., Ventilators; St., Stable; C.H., Coach House; Co.H., Cow House; o Privy; C.P., Cess Pools; W.C., Water Closet; do., overlined, Sunk, underlined, Overhead; A, Area; underlined, overlined: Sunk, Raised; W.H., Wash House; G.H., Green House; W.S., Water Supply; B.M., Bench Mark; F.P., Fire Pipe; Cn., Cistern; underlined, Sunk. 'The Red Figures on the Houses denote the Level of the lowest floor.' Stone and brick houses and buildings carmine, wooden houses, sheds and outbuldings grey, macadam or ballast light sienna, Garden Ground green with paths and bushes.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
masonry distinguished, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, walls: G.H. with blue hatching for glass houses.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, sanitary hazards: Cellars, Tap, Trough, Pump, Drains, Well, Pump & Trough, Tank, Covered Drain, Channels along streets (in blue). Abbreviations: Cn, S.G., K.S., W.S., W.C., S.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/29/187-191 [original]; Bradford Library BAI.1854.BAI [derivative].
Industry:
uncertain: Mill.
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
some slopes shown
Symbolic elements:
Eagle: holds scales.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Stated measuerments:
basement levels, spot heights: Spot heights and basements to 0.01 ft. 'The Levels or Altitudes are given in Feet and Decimals above the Ordnance Datum being the Approximate mean Water at Liverpool.'
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1844-8
1:10,560
1890-1
1:2500
1:10,560
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