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Yorks-Leeds-1886

CBTM:
21235
Map Date:
12.1886
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.14(1)
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Leeds
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SE301337
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 3034
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Leeds Yorkshire December 1886.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:2400 [Vol I]; second index, 1:3600, August 1890 (sheets 13-16: not present), which covers a larger area than the detailed plans; Vol 1I is city centre and then north of the Aire; sheets 17-29 added March 1902; Vol II is April 1901, sheets 41-65. Survey: Vol I September-December 1886; revised to March 1902; Vol II April & May 1901 [south of River Aire]. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 12+15+27].
Number of parts:
54
Legends:
general legend
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Water transport infrastructure:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
Bonser & Nichols', no.289: BLML Maps 145.b.14(1) [original]; Leeds Library LF.368.G534 [photos fr BL].
Industry:
shown
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Miscellaneous:
Includes on sheets 47 and 59 (April 1901) details of electric light wiring and fittings.
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Stated measuerments:
other: Heights of piles of timber and coal.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1847
1:1056
1888-90
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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