Yorks-Mexborough-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

10710

Map Date:

1839

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/43/284

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Mexborough

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE480000

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 4595

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

J. Alexander, Doncaster [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, other: Enclosed fields tinted green.

Buildings:

shown

Canals:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

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

Industry:

furniture/pottery

River and foreshore features:

old river courses, river embankments

Antiquities:

Motte and bailey: shown by hachures.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits: Hachures indicate what may be bell-pits [area 252].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Ferries:

ferry

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete