Yorks-Huddersfield-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20290

Map Date:

1838

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] SR 2 (Box)

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Huddersfield

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE144164

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1118

Map title:

'Plan of Huddersfield and environs. Surveyed in the summer of 1835 and corrected up to 1838 by G. Crowther Huddersfd.'

Comments on map:

Unclear whether this map's origins are 'municipal' or 'private'. Fields numbered: no reference to hand. Detailed building morphology, but few buildings described: industry, e.g., has to be inferred from building shapes and sizes.

Scale:

1:1188

Map-maker:

G. Crowther, Huddersfield [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

166 x 161

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, uncertain: Some carmine edging, some fields tinted lime green.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

trade halls, markets: [Cloth Hall].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] SR2 (box).

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Stated measuerments:

other: One street length in yards and feet.

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