Yorks-Pocklington-1855 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20446

Map Date:

1855

Repository reference:

East Riding RO DDPY 19/4

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:

'The illustrated plan of the town of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Made and published in the year 1855, by William Watson of Pockington. Who also made and published the Plan of Market Weighton in the Year 1848.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from good-quality photocopy. This differs from the earlier map of Pockington [Exeter 20281] but is similar to Watson's of Market Weighton [Exeter 20325], in that stylised elevations of buildings are shown. Below scales (chains, yards, feet): 'These are the only Plans Published that shew all the windows, doors, chimneys, &c in the Front Elevation of all the Houses in the Towns, with the names & trades of all the Householders.' Below that is a note of the fair and market days. Numbers to buildings differ from those on the 1848 map. The alphabetical lists of streets and yards seems to indicate that not all the latter are mapped. [Apparent lack of bank and almshouses, etc, is rather surprising.]

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

William Watson, Pockington [sv, pb], W. Monkhouse, York [lith].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

83.2 x 65.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, transport., other: Railway, yards and churchyard infilled.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised: Elevations shown; 'uninhabited' buildings have hatching added to elevation.

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Whilst all are pictorial, All Saints Church arises from a plan, as a careful small-scale south elevation, with convincing window tracery. Dates of chapels given, e.g. 'Chapel 1813'.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover: [Individual tall leylandii-like trees].

Known copies of map:

East Riding RO DDPY 19/4.

Industry:

rope walk, misc: Flax Factory, Pipe Maker, Chimney. [Industry only noted here where buildings seem distinctive: some industrial-looking buildings are hatched but not described.]

Railways:

routes

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms, misc: Late Temperance Hall.

Landowners and occupiers:

holdings/occupiers: [Occupiers with occupations, including 'William Watson author of this Plan'].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On right, below title etc: 'Pocklington Grammar School, Yorkshire, founded by John Dollman, LL.D. A.D. 1514.': master and usher in 1855 named.

Geodetic notes:

Below title: Latitude (53.55.15 N, 0.45.30 W, being 3m.2s. 'after Greenwich time').

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:10,560

1890-1

1:2500

1:10,560