Yorks-Bradford-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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