Yorks-Halifax-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20253

Map Date:

? 1825

Repository reference:

Halifax Library, reference section, map drawer 3

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Halifax

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE096251

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 0425

Comments on map:

No title, scale, or date: dating is the library's. Fields numbered, reference elsewhere. Rating is apparent from the published version [Exeter 20254].

Scale:

1:3168*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114 x 68

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Churches only named in reference: not on map.

Markets and exchanges:

trade halls, markets: [Piece Hall].

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] HAS/B 20/48, also HP/6 [original]; [BL has Book of Ref at 10347.ee.14(5)]; Halifax Library, reference section [in Alan Betteridge & Derek Bridge, Maps and views of old Halifax from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Halifax: Ryburn Publishing, 1991].

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560