Yorks-Halifax-1870 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20260

Map Date:

? 1870

Repository reference:

Halifax Library, reference section, map drawers 6-9

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Halifax

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE096251

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 0425

Comments on map:

Some detail on some sheets, particularly in the more built-up parts, has been removed by scraping, and not replaced: elsewhere, later revision has been added in red and carmine, e.g. the Halifax & Ovenden railway. Some sheets are in a second copy: 125 sheets is an estimate. Sheets are numbered as lettered sub-sheets of a numbered parent-sheet series.

Scale:

1:360

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

93.7 x 65.3 [overall: map 89.2 x 59.4], x 185 [nominally].

Number of parts:

125

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, steps to buildings: Glazed areas include Conservarory, Frame, Green House, Peach House.

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, lamps, reservoirs, misc: Drinking Fountain, Covered Tank of the Halifax WW for regulating the Elland supply [indicated by pecked lines], Pure Water Conduit [this is the pipelines on much earlier mapping]. Abbreviations: privvies (o), DB, FP, GV, LP, MH, SG, St [stable]. Some sheets have blue (water), green (gas) and red (sewers).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Some Anglican churches are shown in plan with pews.

Public buildings:

misc: Inland Bonding Warehouse.

Defence and military:

volunteer parade grounds

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, orphanages, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, township

Known copies of map:

Halifax Library, reference section, map drawers 6-9.

Industry:

chemicals, engineering, food/drink, oil/soap etc, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Mills; Tool Works, Joiners Shop, Fire Clay Works, Patent Ventilator Factory.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: Signal House, Pointsman's House, Water Crane, Signal Cabin, Cranes [no rails under roofs].

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: Fountain, Statues, Pavilion, etc, in public park; private Croquet Lawn.

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Oddfellows

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

statues: [Equestrian Statue (Prince Consort)].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Model Lodging Houses, Troughs.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping: [Cow Houses].

Geodetic notes:

Trigonometrical Points, Trigl. Point (Ordnance).

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones with distances.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete