Yorks-Leeds-1812
CBTM:
20240
Map Date:
1812
Repository reference:
Leeds Central Library, Family History & Local Studies, SRF 942.75 T.391 [Boyne's grangerised Whitaker's Leodis & Elmete]
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:
'Plan of the town of Leeds, with its modern improvements 1812.'
Comments on map:
Bonser & Nichols note that the streets run straight, i.e. geometric accuracy is compromised. Buildings are very generalised.
Scale:
1:4500
Map-maker:
C. Livesay [eng], J. Heaton, Bookseller, Leeds [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
47.0 x 37.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Buildings are very generalised.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Rotation Office, Parish Clerk's residence.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, trade halls, markets: [Cloth Halls].
Known copies of map:
Bonser & Nichols' no.32: Leeds Library ML (1806), 95.D.26 [1806?: BN32]; SRF 942.75 T391 [in Boyne's grangerised Whitaker's Loidis & Elmete] [1812: BN33]; Leeds Library 906.T39L, LQP.912H352 [1904: 1806, in Thoresby Soc 11, half-size].
Industry:
food/drink
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Crowned female with outstetched hand waves at the title, which is framed with a conventional suggestion of rocky vegetation, with what is evidently the town of Leeds behind; she leans on the town arms, and seems to be sitting on a bale; a sack behind, another ?bale to the left.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
Crowned female, bales, sack: in title.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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