Yorks-Morley-1750 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20321

Map Date:

? 1750

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] Morley Borough (Additional) Estate Maps

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Morley

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE262278

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 2823

Comments on map:

Recorded from half-size photocopy of original from Dartmouth estates, with scale and dimensions compensated. There is a similar photograph in the local history collection at Morley Public Library, which is dated c.1706. Not much villagey detail emerges. Dating from record office list.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

145 x 100

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, decorative, uncertain: Multi-coloured fields, presumably for estate/holding purposes; plenty of colour for scale, cartouche and compass.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Known copies of map:

Leeds Library ML (1706?) [copied off glass negative held by Morley Lib], Morley Library, West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] Morley Borough (Additional) estate maps (acc.2027).

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Decoration around reference panels.

Reference system:

squaring

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers and globe above scale.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1847-51

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560