Yorks-Hedon-1838
CBTM:
20455
Map Date:
1838
Repository reference:
East Riding RO DDCK 35/16
Historic county:
Yorks, East Riding
Town name:
Hedon
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TA188287
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TA 1828
Map title:
'A plan of the borough of Hedon in the East Riding of the County of York by G.B. Baker 1838.'
Comments on map:
Fields numbered: reference at same pressmark [stored separately]. There are actually two manuscript copies: one [with a fake ivy-leaf stuck on] has beige building infill, identifies St Augustine, National School, Cross and tanyard and has 'Hedon and Hull new road', the other has grey buildings, does not identify the buildings instanced, and has 'Hull and Hedon new road'.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
G.B. Baker [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
84.0 x 58.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water, decorative: Grey shading in title.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Haven, Basin.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Includes 'sites' of St James and St Nicholas, shown as buildings, and (on the 'ivy' copy) a building on the site of St John, undescribed.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: [Guildhall].
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown: Woods and gardens much the same.
Known copies of map:
East Riding RO DDCK 35/16 (also has book of reference).
Industry:
textiles
River and foreshore features:
old river courses: [Ancient Haven: x 2].
Gardens:
shown: Woods and gardens much the same.
Waterbodies:
shown
Crosses:
cross: [Cross: unclear what this is, but built since the 'Iveson' map [Exeter 20454]].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1852-3
1:10,560
1888-9
1:2500
1:10,560
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