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Yorks-Bradford-1850

CBTM:
20220
Map Date:
1.1850
Repository reference:
Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, BRA.1850.DIX
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 in the county of York, Jany. 1850.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from a photocopy which, if the library's card index is to be believed, has been enlarged 200 %. Note bottom left says that is copied from Thomas Dixon's map of the borough of Bradford [Exeter 19749], and one bottom right that it is for Ibbotson's Directory of the Borough of Bradford. The main urban interest is the extent of building development.
Scale:
1:19,495
Map-maker:
Thomas Dixon [sv], Masser & Bailey, Lithographers, Bradford [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48 x 35
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established predominates
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Bradford Library BRA.1850.DIX, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 95.D.31.
Industry:
chemicals, engineering, metallurgical processing, uncertain: Mills.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways: Lines in fact still under construction are centre-line only.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Left: vignette of Bradford: Rock & Co. London No. 231, Pub. by Ibbotson, Bradford.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1848
1:1056
1:10,560
1889-91
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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