Yorks-Halifax-1842
CBTM:
20256
Map Date:
1842
Repository reference:
Halifax Library, reference section, map drawer 3
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Halifax
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE096251
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 0425
Map title:
'Plan of the borough of Halifax'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from Alan Betteridge & Derek Bridge, Maps and views of old Halifax from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Halifax: Ryburn Publishing, 1991: original not available on 3:10:02.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Charles Rawson [sv], Day & Haghe [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
?
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, misc: Watercourses.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
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].
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Extractive activity:
coal
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1849
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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