Yorks-Halifax-1827
CBTM:
16814
Map Date:
1827
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] HXT 628
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:
47 sections at 1 inch to 26.5 feet (1:318), and 12 at 2 chains (1:1584). Surveyed and drawn by Day. Interleaved, facilitating revision, but only two, post-railway, sections treated thus; elsewhere additions and alterations are in blue or red. Everythng is numbered, but only streets and yards are named. Chapel, Infirmary, Museum, New Market (with pens/stalls) may be later additions, as the Workhouse, Cemetery and Victoria Reservoir obviously are.
Scale:
1:318
Map-maker:
Thomas Day [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
41 x 63 [x 59, + title, + interleaving].
Number of parts:
62
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] HXT 628.
Leisure and entertainment:
museums
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Map material:
parchment
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1849
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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