Yorks-Huddersfield-1850 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20274

Map Date:

1850

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] Cen.Stk., MC2

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Huddersfield

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE144154

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1118

Map title:

'Plan of the Huddersfield estate belonging to Sir John William Ramsden Baronet 1850.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from reduced-scale photocopy (scale and dimensions compensated) in Almondbury & Huddersfield: a map collection 1634-1860, Huddersfield: Kirklees Libraries, 1990. See Exeter 20289 for another version of this mapping. Mapping appears to be complete, including the non-Ramsden lands.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

Thos Brook, Surveyor &c, Huddersfield [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45 x 65 [area covered by published extract].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: Settled and devised estates and freeholds.

Colouring:

land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Kirklees] Censtk MC2.

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1848-9

1:1056

1:10,560

1887-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560