Yorks-Queensbury-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20232

Map Date:

9.1888

Repository reference:

WYAS-Bradford BBD 9/1/31/OS 5

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Queensbury

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE102303

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1633

Map title:

'Queensbury Local Board Plan of No.1 District', etc.

Comments on map:

In five sheets, numbered as 'districts' rather than as sheets. Designation of surveyors varies beteen sheets, one of which is dated September 1888. A companion to 1:2376 map of January 1888, Exeter 16663. (Later annotations include notes on valves on water mains, and a few notes in ballpoint on 20th century building development.)

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

John Drake, Surveyor, Architect, Winterbank, Queensbury, near Bradford [? author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

186 x 91 [x 1], 118 x 91 [x 4].

Number of parts:

5

Colouring:

roads, water, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, sewers, water mains: Water mains blue, ? sewers red.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican named in gothic.

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 9/1/31/OS5.

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

named, misc: Runs in tunnel, so only railway land above is shown.

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Street tramways:

routes shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: Includes Pineberry Inn.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-9

1:10,560

1891

1:2500

1:10,560