Yorks-Dewsbury: Earlsheaton-1869 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16837

Map Date:

1869

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] KC 604

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Dewsbury: Earlsheaton

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE258210

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 2823

Comments on map:

Soothill Nether, In township of Soothill, parish of Dewsbury: made for the Local Board. A refulgent effort. No mapmaker. Fields not numbered. [Apparently the largest map in the Kirklees collection: catches attention of passers-by, sometimes apprehensively, as though about to grab them.]

Scale:

1:1056

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

217 x 248

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, sanitary hazards, water works, misc: Well, Pump.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

rifle ranges

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] KC 604.

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Road earthworks, W.M. [weighing machine].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shield, with 'NS' monogram, and blank banner below, top right.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Pipe diameters.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1850-1

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560