Yorks-Pontefract-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20320

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] NP C3/1/1/25 (673)

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Pontefract

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE460224

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 4725

Map title:

'Plan of the townships of Pontefract, Tanshelf, and Carlton, with Pontefract Park district, and the hamlet of Monkhill in the West Riding of the county of York, by Willm. Shipton 1821.'

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: no reference to hand. Less elaboarately finished, but in terms of cover not much less remarkable that the 1779 Hepworth map [Exeter 20319].

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

William Shipton [sv], Cave, Engr., York [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.7 x 74.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Only indicated by cross-hatching: very subtle.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Castle Hil]l

Markets and exchanges:

cross: [Evidently cross, in plan].

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds: [Race course is indicated by Grand Stand and circular track].

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township: Thick black lines.

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] NPC 3/1/1/25 (673).

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills: [Castle Hill, Bag Hill].

Monuments:

Monuments: [Waterloo Monument: pictorial, complete with surrounding railings].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560