Yorks-Mexborough-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20357

Map Date:

1839

Repository reference:

Doncaster Archives, DX BAX/S/Map 24b

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Mexborough

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE480000

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 4595

Map title:

'Plan of the township of Mexborough in the parish of Mexborough in the West Riding of the County of York 1839.'

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: seems to be copy of tithe map. Scattered residual open field, etc, which are named, in contrast to everything else, which is nicely drawn but otherwise 'anonymous'.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

J. Alexander, Surveyor, Doncaster [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.8 x 65.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, uncertain: Some fields tinted blue-green: they all seem to be enclosed.

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/43/284 [recorded as Exeter 10710], Doncaster Archives P.43/9/B1, DX DAX/S/Map/24, 24b [62350] [/24 is 1:2376, /24b is 1:4752; recorded as Exeter 20357], DX BAX/S/Map 68 [64619].

Industry:

furniture/pottery: [Potteries].

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits: Various scattered mounds might be bell-pits.

Ordnance Survey's

1849-50

1:10,560

1890

1:2500

1:10,560