Yorks-Huddersfield-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19756

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 177.a.2

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Huddersfield

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE144164

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1118

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Huddersfield in the West Riding of the county of York. Surveyed A.D. 1825 by T. Dinsley, Huddersfield.'

Comments on map:

Recorded using Huddersfield maps from 1634, Huddersfield Public Libraries, 1971: monochrome copy, with no indication of size of original. Scale statement seems to be 3 chains, so dimensions compensated. Purpose unclear: some plots numbered, some others coloured [no reference present].

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

T. Dinsley, Huddersfield [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94 x 82

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, uncertain: Some unnumbered fields tinted.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

trade halls, markets: [Cloth Hall].

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] MC3 [original], BLML Maps 177.a.2, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.C.46 [in Huddersfield maps from 1634, Huddersfield Public Libraries, 1971] [repro]; Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.C.46 [repro, 44 x 39 cm].

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1887-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560