Yorks-Leeds-1845 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22893

Map Date:

10.2.1845

Repository reference:

Cambridge University Library Atlas.4.84.31

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Leeds

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE301337

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 3034

Map title:

'Leeds. Sewers. Drawing No.3. Design for a system of sewers for the more effuctual drainage of the town of Leeds, and its suburbs, Hunslet and Holbeck.'

Comments on map:

The other drawings in the set are a small-scale environs map and various sections. Competent lithography: style a little suggestive of the Rapkin-Tallis style of a few years later. Note on sewers says that the original from which this has been reduced can be seen at the Board of Worlks office.

Scale:

1:9900

Map-maker:

Jno. W. Leather C.E., Leeds [author], J.F. Masser, Litho, Leeds [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

73.2 x 45.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

sanitation

Colouring:

utilities, uncertain: Unexplained districts, tinted: all hand-coloured.

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Numerous emphasised buildings not named.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Projected trunk sewers in red, with possible variations.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

trade halls, markets: [Cloth Halls].

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.4.84.31.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, glass, uncertain, misc: Factory, Mills; Vitriol Works.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, passenger stations

Magnetic data:

diagram

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [One factory].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560