Yorks-Rotherham-1774
CBTM:
20339
Map Date:
1774
Repository reference:
Rotherham Library, Archives
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Rotherham
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK430930
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 4595
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Rotherham in the county of York drawn for The Right Honourable The Earl of Effingham by B. Rotherham 1774'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from photo of the original, which was last heard of in an office in Sheffield in the 1930s. Some areas numbered: no reference available.
Scale:
1:792
Map-maker:
B. Rotherham [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
104 x 116
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
ownership
Colouring:
Buildings, water, owners: Bands for Earl of Effingham, waste, and vicarage lands.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
Rotherham Library, Archives.
Industry:
furniture/pottery
River and foreshore features:
river shoals
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Quite extensive].
Waterbodies:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1851
1:1056
1:10,560
1888
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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