Yorks-Pocklington-1844 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20281

Map Date:

11.1844

Repository reference:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 95D1

Historic county:

Yorks, East Riding

Town name:

Pocklington

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE803489

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 8050

Map title:

'A plan of the town of Pockington in the East Riding of Yorkshire.'

Comments on map:

Remarkable for the elevations, rather than the plans, of buildings: the mapping could have been prepared without the need to enter private premises.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

S. Straker, 118 Bishopsgate, London [lith], Easton's Printing Office, Pocklington [pb, sell].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

95.0 x 66.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings: Houses (stippled), Out-buildings (hatched). 'The breadth of the shadings from the Streets, is the height of the building to the eaves, except those marked thus

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use, decorative: Hand-coloured: churchyard lime-green, church nicely-multi-colored.

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, noticeably generalised: Apparent recessions from road indicate carriage arches.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Superintendent Registrar's Office.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

East Riding RO DDPY/19/3 [not for general production], DDX 511 [photocopy], YAS 95.D.1.

Industry:

textiles, uncertain: Mill.

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Seems rather selective].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: view of parish church, stated to be from south-east: the paths in the churchyard don't agree with those shown on the map.

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Geodetic notes:

Note of latitude and longitude and time difference below title (53.55.15, N, 0.45.30 W; 3m 2s).

Garden and park buildings:

sundials: [Pictorial, coloured].

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:10,560

1890-1

1:2500

1:10,560