Yorks-Leeds-1842
CBTM:
20263
Map Date:
1842
Repository reference:
Leeds Central Library, Local Studies, ML (1842)
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Leeds
Map type:
Health Hazard
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE301337
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 3034
Map title:
'Sanitary map of the town of Leeds'.
Comments on map:
To accompany Edwin Chadwick's Report... on... the sanitary condition of the labouring population, London: HMSO, 1842. Table of wards, with numbers of 'good streets' and 'bad streets', and proportions of births and deaths to population per acre. The actual content of the map is probably the work of Robert Baker: cf Exeter 20261.
Scale:
1:9504
Map-maker:
Stephen Sly, 11 Bouverie St [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
38.0 x 23.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, other: Houses of the working Classes; Shops, warehouses and Houses of tradespeople; Houses of the first class; Woollen, Worstead, Cotton, Silk or Flax Mills; localities in which Cholera prevailed; localities where Contagious Diseases have been sent to the house of recovery from 1834 to 1839; less cleansed districts.
Colouring:
health hazards: Less cleansed districts.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
incidence of disease: Infill for working class housing, trade premises, and 'first class' houses: blue spots for cholera, red spots for places sending patients with contagious diseases to House of Recovery in 1834-9; less cleansed districts.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries, infirmaries, u, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
trade halls, markets: [Cloth Halls].
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward
Known copies of map:
Bonser & Nichols no.95: Leeds Library 614.0942 P791, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.C.8.
Industry:
textiles: By symbols like squat bottles with smoke coming out of the top.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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