Skip to content

Yorks-Bradford-1871

CBTM:
19887
Map Date:
1871
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/408
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:
'Plan of the town of Bradford reduced from the large survey of the borough made for the Corporation. Revised and corrected to the present time by Dixon & Hindle Land Agents & Surveyors Bradford. 1871. Published by Henry Gasgarth, Bookseller, Stationer &c. Bradford.'
Comments on map:
Fairly clean-cut sans-serif map.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
Dixon & Hindle, Land Agents & Surveyors, Bradford [author], Henry Gasgarth, Bookseller, Stationer &c. Bradford [pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.0 x 52.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, College of Heralds
Defence and military:
barracks, volunteer parade grounds
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward
Known copies of map:
BOL C17:70 Bradford (3), Bradford Library BRA.1871.DIX, CUL Maps.93.87.1, TNA [PRO] RAIL 1033/408 [1871]; BOL C17:70 Bradford (20), B942WIL, CUL Maps.b.19.G.31, Keighley Central Library [Elvira Wilmott, The Ryburn Map of Victorian Bradford, Halifax, Ryburn Publishing, 1987].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, food/drink, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Numerous Mills.
Railways:
routes, sidings, earthworks, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, misc: Bradford Club.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Ordnance Survey's
1848
1:1056
1:10,560
1889-91
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
#document