Yorks-Leeds-1815
CBTM:
20241
Map Date:
1815
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 and its environs. Survey'd by Netlam and Francis Giles, of New Inn, London, 1815.'
Comments on map:
1:6600 inset of Hartley, Green & Co's Pottery.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Netlam and Francis Giles, of New Inn, London [sv], Neele, Strand [eng], Robinson, Son & Holdsworth, Leeds [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
80.0 x 59.5
Number of parts:
2
Legends:
altitude information, boundaries
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Not over-generalised.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown, warehousing
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Named well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Rotation Office.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, trade halls: [Cloth Halls].
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: 'Divisions of the town'.
Known copies of map:
Leeds Library ML (1815) (S.R.), Leeds Library SRF 942.75 T.39.L [in Boyne's grangerised Whitaker's Loidis & Elmete] [1815], Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.C.10; Leeds Library F7.912.4275.L517, LQP.912.4275.T391) [1968 repr]; BOL C17:70 Leeds c.4, CUL Maps.bb.19.G.91 [1990: Leeds in maps: Thoresby Soc & Leeds City Libraries].
Industry:
food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery, uncertain: Mills. Not much industry described: various building shapes might perhaps be industrial.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram: True ('solar') and magnetic north indicated.
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
shown partially
Borders:
keyboard type: Minature Ordnance-Survey-style.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Coal Staiths. [These may be at the north end of the Middleton Railway, which isn't indicated as such.]
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: Spot heights, in feet and inches: datum stated to be 'the Waste Wear of the Water Works Engine on the East Side of the Bridge', which is not readily idetifiable on the map.
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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