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Yorks-Bradford-1880

CBTM:
16667
Map Date:
1880
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] 52D79/5
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 townships of Bradford, Horton, Bowling, Manningham & Bolton, forming the Borough of Bradford, revised and corrected from actual surveys by Joseph Hardwick, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Bradford 1880'.
Comments on map:
Entered Stationers Hall 13:11:1880.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
Joseph Hardwick, Assoc.Inst.C.E. [author], S.O. Bailey, Lithographer & Engraver, London Road, Bradford [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
117 x 126
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, gas mains, rubbish destructors, reservoirs, sewage disposal
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township, Ward
Known copies of map:
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, 52D79/5 [treated as miscellaneous map, Exeter 16667]; Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, BRA.1880.HAR, B.912.42817.HAR. This mapping was also used for 'Plan of the town [1898: city] and environs of Bradford, specially prepared for the Post Office Bradford directory, 1883 [etc]': examples in Bradford Central Library at BRA.1883.BYL [1883], BRA.1887.BYL [1887] [also West Yorkshire Archive Service [Bradford] 96.C.40], BRA.1891.BYL [1891], BRA.1893.BYL [1893], BRA.1898.BYL [1898], BRA.1900.BYL/2 [1900: not found, 11:9:02]. WYAS-B 11D81 [1894: fragile] is presumably this as well.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Stationary Engine, various described mills, various works.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, motive power depots, named, passenger stations
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Arms and heraldry:
municipal, uncertain: Boar's head in compass boss.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Road mileages.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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