Yorks-Bradford-1834 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20218

Map Date:

1834

Repository reference:

Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, BRA.1834.KEM

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Bradford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE163329

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1633

Map title:

'Map of the borough of Bradford, as determined by the Commissioners appointed by the Honourable the Commons House of Parliament: 1834.'

Comments on map:

Recorded prepared from good modern copy, which unfortunately omits the original publisher imprint, although both the pressmark and the style indicate that it is by Kemp and Nichols. Scale seems to have been reduced from 1:15,840 to about 1:18,500: dimensions have been compensated. Table of population and votes, bottom right, and note of first members returned in December 1832.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

[Kemp and Nichols [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62 x 42

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Shown by crosses.

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

Bradford Library BRA.1834.KEM [1834]; Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.C.34-41, MD 1639/4 [1834/1975: in Bradford in the nineteenth century shown in maps, City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, Libraries Division, 1975].

Industry:

chemicals, metallurgical processing

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: ? piece hall or court house: 'Parrett Bradford'.

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:1056

1:10,560

1889-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560