Yorks-Elland-1831 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16728

Map Date:

1831

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] MP 14

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Elland, Greetland

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE108212

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1118

Comments on map:

Elland cum Greetland. Both sheets surveyed by Greenwood, but are drawn by different hands. Rating assumed: no book of reference available. 'Gunter's Chains' on Greetland, 'Statute Chains' on Elland part: Elland has 'W.G.' in scale, so is perhaps authentic Greenwood, and neater trees. (Railway (Lancashire & Yorkshire) added later in red).

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

W. Greenwood [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

142 x 74, 104 x 167

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

roads, water

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] MP 14.

River and foreshore features:

weirs and waterfalls

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1849-50

1:10,560

1888-92

1:2500

1:10,560