Yorks-Idle-1894 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20237

Map Date:

12.1894

Repository reference:

Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, IDL.1894.WOO, B.352.IDL

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Idle

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE176378

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1738

Map title:

'Map of the urban district of Idle.'

Comments on map:

Both separately (IDL.1894.WOO) and accompanying Statistical and other information relating to the Urban sanitary District of Idle, December 1894, Idle, Watmough, n.d. (B.352.IDL), where on p.38 it says that Messrs W.B. Woodhead were the engineers for the town's sewerage works in 1889-94. Map appears to be a straightforward derivative from Ordnance Survey.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

W.B. Woodhead & Son, Surveyors, Bradford [? author], S.O. Bailey & Co. Engineers & Surveyor's Lithographers, Leeds Road, Bradford [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41.5 x 31.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sewage disposal

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Churches named in upright, chapels in italic lettering.

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bradford Library IDL.1894.WOO, B.352.IDL.

Industry:

uncertain: Named mills.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:10,560

1890

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560