Yorks-Batley-1857 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16838

Map Date:

1857

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] KC 606

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Batley

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE242245

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 2823

Comments on map:

Surveyed for Local Board of Health, 1857. No evidence here of anything larger. Fields numbered; reference not to hand. Assumed therefore to be rating rather than sanitary.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

M. Sheard, Junr., Batley [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

196 x 202

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward, misc: [Wards and subdivisions].

Known copies of map:

Kirklees Archives KC 606.

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain: Mill.

Railways:

routes, named

Gardens:

shown: [Ornamental rather than horticultural].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Magnetic data:

diagram

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1847-51

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560