Yorks-Queensbury-1888
CBTM:
16663
Map Date:
1.1888
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] 25D79/12
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
Comments on map:
Dated January 1888. 'NOTE. The boundaries and position of Roads in the Clayton portion of this plan are transferred from the Clayton Township plan. In the Northowram portion the Roads and boundaries are transferred and enlarged from the Northowram Township plan. The buildings have been Surveyed and corrected up to date.' Fields shown, unnumbered. (Associated with this is a 1:792 set of plans, also by Drake, and dated September 1888: recorded as Exeter 20232.)
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Drake, Land Surveyor, Queensbury, near Bradford [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
163 x 175
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, colours
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, general highlighting of district, utilities: Varying colours for buildings.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] 25D79/12.
Industry:
food/drink, uncertain: Various named mills.
Railways:
routes, named, rails: Mostly in tunnel.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: 'Reference' designed like a hanging map, with string and hooks at top, and roller with pointed ends at bottom.
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: Isolated, plus unnamed colouring in built-up part.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1848-9
1:10,560
1891
1:2500
1:10,560
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