Yorks-Leeds-1771
CBTM:
18558
Map Date:
1771
Repository reference:
University of Exeter, Department of Geography
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 plan of Leeds.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from facsimile published by Harry Margary, 1973, with introduction by J.B. Harley and J.C. Harvey, according to which the survey of this part of the county was by Thomas Donald. Inset on Jeffreys' 1:63,360 map of Yorkshire.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Thomas Jeffreys [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
32.0 x 28.0 [irregular].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Very severely generalised away from street-fronts.
Mills:
watermills, (unspecified type): Water Engine [? another watermill].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
trade halls, markets: [There is a small inset plan of the cloth hall, not identified on the map proper].
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 150.e.18, K.Top.44.7.8 Tab.End, BOL C17:63 a.2, Leeds Library SRF.912.4274.J.36.8 [2 sets], SRQ.912.4274.J.367, NLS EME.s.11 [1771: BN16]; CUL Atlas.1.76.1,39, Maps.AA.93.77.1- ['1772']; York Minster Archives [1772]; NRRO ZDU [MIC 1919/229-430 & DN 79]; BLML Maps 5895(5), BOL Gough Maps 77, CUL Atlas.1.76.2,7-, Doncaster Archives DZ MD/654/1 [1775]; BOL C17:70 Leeds c.4/3, CUL Maps.bb.19.G.91 [1775/1878/1990: Joseph Dodgson, repub; Thoresby, &c]; RGS Eng & Wales D.88; [1796] RGS Eng & Wales D.88; BLML K.Top.44.8.6.Tab., BOL C17 a.10, Gough Maps Yorkshire 44, CUL Atlas.1.80.9 [1800]; West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] C.559/82; Leeds Library [1878, BN17: Dodgson, Leeds, from 1775 edn] [multiple copies & pressmarks]; BOL R.Top 447/IX [1771/1899, BN18: issued by Thoresby soc., 1899, Vol.IX]; BOL G14/C17.63B, RGS Library [reduced facsimile, 8 X 7'', pub Thoresby Society, 1960, in Publ Thoresby Soc, Vol 47, no.106, 1958, Pl III.]; BOL G.A.Yorks 8o 1239 [1771/1867: pb John Waddington Feather]; BOL (E)C17:63 (118), Doncaster Library, local studies, L912.4274.YOR R.13168-R.13187, NLS Map.Fac.s.106 [Scholar Press, 1971: from 1775 version]; BOL (E) C17:63 (123), Leeds Library F.912.4274.J36Y [1973: Harry Margary].
Industry:
textiles: [Tenters].
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Borders:
decorative
Symbolic elements:
Oakleaves in border; plants shoot from winged creature, ? gryphon.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham, etc, etc, Lord Lieutenant, etc.
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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