Yorks-Keighley-1878 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20239

Map Date:

1878

Repository reference:

Keighley Central Library

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Keighley

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE060412

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 0539

Map title:

'Plans shewing the district of the Keighley Local Board of Health corrected & reduced up to July, 1878. by B. Hopkinson, Surveyor & Valuer, Keighley.'

Comments on map:

Scale is explicitly stated as 1 inch to 30 yards (1:1080): the town had been previously mapped by Ordnance Survey at 1:1056, and the details do seem as though, where possible, they could have been derived from Ordnance Survey. 36 detail sheets at 1:1080: 'Reference sheet', i.e. index, is at 1:10,560.

Scale:

1:1080

Map-maker:

B. Hopkinson, Surveyor & Valuer, Keighley [author], Charles Goodall, Lithographer, Leeds [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.5 x 42.3 [map area 60.5 x 39.7] [x 37].

Number of parts:

37

Colouring:

roads, other: Roads colour-printed on all sheets; sheet lines and numbers colour-printed in red on index sheet only.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally: Seems rather hit-and-miss.

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown: Old T.P. House.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, lamps, reservoirs, misc: .L.P. [isolated examples only], Troughs, Tank, Wells, Sewage Tank.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

drill halls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Keighley Central Library.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, uncertain, textiles, timber, warehousing, misc: Mill, Works (usually named, e.g. Eagle Works, Alpha Works, Park Works, Dalton Mills, on sheet 17); pits at Tannery; Tool Works, Wire Mill.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Sidewalks, Intended road.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Show Ground.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1889-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560