Yorks-Leeds-1867 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19761

Map Date:

1867

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5985 (3)

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 Leeds, specially engraved for Hindles land, house & estate list. Office, top of Park Row, Leeds. 1867.'

Comments on map:

Clean-cut, straightforward sans-serif map.

Scale:

1:7128*

Map-maker:

S. Moxon, Leeds [lith], Hindle, Park Row, Leeds [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.7 x 20.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Several black buildings not named or described.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, trade halls, markets: [Cloth Hall].

Known copies of map:

Bonser & Nichols' no.179. BLML Maps 5985(3), CUL maps.93.86.1 [original]; Leeds Library ML (1867) [photos ex BL].

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, motive power depots, named, rails, passenger stations: Includes Wellington-Marsh Lane connection.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: Old Moot Hall, Briggate; bottom left: New Town Hall.

Cemeteries:

shown

Retail activity:

publisher of map: [Hindle's Estate Office].

Ordnance Survey's

1847

1:1056

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560