Yorks-Leeds-1727
CBTM:
18344
Map Date:
? 1727
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Leeds
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE301337
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 3034
Map title:
'A new & exact plan of the town of Leedes, survey'd by Iohn Cofsins'.
Comments on map:
Style follows Cossin's York [Exeter 18342] rather than Scarborough [Exeter 18340], with severely generalised buildings. Description of town inset bottom right; vignettes of important buildings and houses to left and right; reference by letters to public buildings, etc.
Scale:
1:1980
Map-maker:
John Cossins [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
86.5 x 75.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL G14/C17.63B, R.Top.447/IX, Leeds Library ML (1725) (S.R.) [multiple originals & facsims] [1725: BN10]; Leeds Library F.942.75.T39L [1850s, BN11: engr Pulleyn & Hunt]; Leeds Library 906.T39L [1897: Thoresby Soc]; CUL 499.c.18.43, S696.c.96.45, Leeds Library 906.T39L, Leeds Library F.942.75.T39L, RGS Library [reduced facsimile, 20 x 18, pub Thoresby Society, 1960, in Publications of the Thoresby Society, Vol 47, no.106, 1958, Pl II.]; Leeds Library F7.912.4275.L517 [1968]; CUL Maps.93.96.75 [18 x 16, in G.E.Bell & D.G. Bayliss, The geography of Yorkshire (1969)]; BOL C17:70 Leeds c.4, CUL Maps.bb.19.G.91 [1990: Leeds in maps: Thoresby Soc & Leeds City Libraries]; [1997: in Murray, Scarborough, York and Leeds...].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Vignettes of important buildings and houses to left and right of mapped area.
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous transport-related:
One bridge is shown pictorially.
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map, municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Lord Irwin of Temple Newsham, James Hibertson, Esq., and Mayor and Aldermen of Leeds.
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