Yorks-Bradford-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16725

Map Date:

1855

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/29/1-129

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Bradford

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE163329

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1633

Map title:

[Title sheet:] 'Plan of the Borough of Bradford comprising the Townships of Bradford, Manningham, Horton & Bowling from a trigonometrical survey made in the years 1853, 1854, 1855 by Thomas Dixon and William Ellison, land surveyors &c, Bradford'.

Comments on map:

Scale 1:360. Theoretically in 125 sheets, plus index and title, but in practice sheets 66-99 are wholly missing, and there are later revised version with 'a' suffixes. Also, fragments are missing from the extant sheets. Because of the size of the map and its storage, sheets have only been examined selectively, for the north-central part of the town. [The following is from the BBD class-list. The plans were surveyed in 1853-55. In 1876-78 revised versions of sheets 15, 38, 42, 44-6, 54-6, 60, 61 and 65 were prepared: they are numbered e.g. '61a'. Missing sheets: 22, 61-99. The map is complemented by 58 sheets of vertical sections, BBD 9/1/29/126-182, at 1 inch to 10 ft horizontal (1:120), and 1 inch to 30 ft (1:360) vertical. BBD 9/1/29/183 is the title sheet, which also includes the legend. BBD 9/1/29/184 is the title for the vertical sections, dated 1855; BBD 9/1/29/185 is an index to the plans added to a plan of the borough, with the 1876-8 sheets shaded pink.]

Scale:

1:360

Map-maker:

Thomas Dixon and William Ellison, Surveyors &c, Bradford [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

210 x 131 [x 126] [All but some sheets along boundary are 'octuple elephant', about 73.75 x 47.0 inches [187.5 x 119.5 cm] within neat lines].

Number of parts:

126

Legends:

general legend: 'Characteristics': Churches, Chapels, Schools, Public Buildings, Mansions &c, Shrubbery, Rockery, Dwellings, Mills, Boilers, Warehouses, Wooden Buildings, Reservoirs, Streams &c, Railways, Banks, Cuttings, Quarries &c; 'Writing Characters: Villages, Districts, Adjoining Townships, Roads and Streets; Boundaries, Township and Ward (dotted), Borough (dot-dash); 'Initials': St, Stable; Co.H., Cow House; W.H., Wash House; C.H., Coach House; G.H., Green House; o, Privvy; Cn., Cistern; D.B., Dustbin; R.S., Rain Spout; F.P., Fire Plug; C.P., Cess Pool; S.G., Sewer Grate; s, Sink Stone; P, Pump; T, Trough; G.L., Gas Lamp.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Paving grey, macadam sienna, greenhouses cross-hatched blue.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

building infill omitted, archways, stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: 'Ordinary' buildings without infill, industrial premises lilac-grey-blue; Sheds.

Canals:

shown, offices, other: Crane, Weighing Machine.

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, lamps, municipal depots, reservoirs, public lavatories, sanitary hazards, misc: Lamp, privvies, Urinals, Model Lodging Houses; abbreviations: D.B., Co.H., St, C.H., W.H., G.H., R.S., S.G., Pigy., L.P.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, College of Heralds

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain, boundary mereings

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/29/1-129 [incomplete; also has later supplementary sheets].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, food/drink, smithing, stone/builders' yards, metallurgical processing, rope walk, textiles, warehousing, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Mills, Engine House, Coach Manufactory, Drying Shed, Workshops.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Booking Office; scale is so large that rails are shown by double lines, but not shown when under roofs, which rather spoils the effect.

Gardens:

shown: With rockeries.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

statues: [Ricd. Oastler, Sir Robert Peel].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous service buildings:

Verandah.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Goyt, Corporation Staithe, gateways.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping, poultry-keeping, pig-keeping: [Hen Coop; quite a concentration of piggeries in Brick Lane].

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Post 1 Mile from Police Station.

Stated measuerments:

basement levels, spot heights: Heights to 0.1 ft: houses have e.g. 392.5, 385.7, to denote ground floor and basement levels. 'The Levels are given on the Ordnance datum Plane, and are inserted in Red Figures. On Buildings showing the Levels of the Ground and Cellar floors, on Roads, Streets, Becks, Railways &c. Being the altitude in feet and decimals, above the aproximate Mean Water at Liverpool.' [sic].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:1056

1:10,560

1889-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560