Yorks-Morley-1780 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20329

Map Date:

1780

Repository reference:

Morley Public Library, local history collection

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 weak photocopy, of uncertain provenance, on which title and surveyors are all but illegible, but evidently for the Dartmouth estates. Note bottom left on manor, parish, county, nearby markets, manufactories, coal, stone, tithes, navigation, turnpike roads and freehold. The map might reveal more to a local student than it does to a whistlestop cartobibliographer.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Richard H.... [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

146 x 99

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, decorative, estate

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: 'Chapel' closes, etc.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Morley Public Library, local history collection.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative: Coloured.

Ordnance Survey's

1847-51

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560