Yorks-Halifax-1851
CBTM:
20087
Map Date:
[1851]
Repository reference:
Lancashire Record Office LSL/P03
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Halifax
Map type:
Health Hazard
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SSE096251
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 0425
Map title:
'Plan of the borough of Halifax.'
Comments on map:
In W. Ranger, Report... on... the sanitary condition of... Halifax..., London: HMSO, 1851, f.p. 4. Marked lack of text in built-up part. As well as the main map, there is a 1:3300 'Plan shewing the intended new streets and improvements in the borough of Halifax' (effectively the town centre) on a separate sheet immediately following.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
Standidge & Co., Litho, London [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60.3 x 44.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
boundaries, other: Wards on main map, various hand-colours: 'Intended improvements' (streets) carmine on the supplementary map.
Road names:
partly: On enlargement only.
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Undescribed black lines running to and from reservoirs, with a branch to the workhouse.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Markets and exchanges:
markets: On enlargement only.
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township, Ward
Known copies of map:
Lancashire RO LSR/P03 [original] [Exeter 20087]; Halifax Library, reference section, map drawer 3 [in Alan Betteridge & Derek Bridge, Maps and views of old Halifax from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Halifax: Ryburn Publishing, 1991] Exeter 20257].
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
shown partially: On east side only.
Ordnance Survey's
1849
1:1056
1:10,560
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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