Yorks-Castleford-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20312

Map Date:

1812

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] DB/M 526

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Castleford

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE425258

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 4725

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Castleford made for the use of Thos Davison Bland Esqr. by Iohn Paver Junr. South Milford 1812.'

Comments on map:

Fields etc numbered: reference not to hand. Mainly of interest for the open-field strips.

Scale:

1:2376*

Map-maker:

John Paver Junr. South Milford [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80 x 115 [looks as if might have been cut down].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, owners

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] DB/M 526 [encl map at DB/M 524].

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1846-8

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560