Yorks-Birstall-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20313

Map Date:

1839

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] DB/M 506

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Gomersal, Birstall

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE221263

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1825

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Gomersal, in the parish of Birstal, in the West Riding of the county of York'.

Comments on map:

Purpose uncertain: fields numbered, but no reference available. The style of lettering suggests that the map could be a rather later transcript.

Scale:

1:4752*

Map-maker:

Brown & Rhodes, Land Surveyors, 17 Albion St, Leeds [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

101.0 x 102.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, uncertain: Some groups of fields around Gomersal tinted lime-green: ownership?

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] DB/M 506.

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1847-51

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1847-51

1:10,560

1888-92

1:2500

1:10,560