Yorks-Sheffield-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21251

Map Date:

4.1888

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.21(1)

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Sheffield

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SK353875

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 3587

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Sheffield.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:2400, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Surveyed December 1887 and January 1888. This survey was effectively replaced in May 1896 by another (BLML Maps 145.b.21(2)) on different sheet lines and with much extended cover, surveyed March to May 1896, with 1:4800 index; there was a further extension of cover, on 6 sheets, dated May 1905.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 6+24+6].

Number of parts:

36

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.21(1) [1888]; Sheffield Library 912.4274.SF [30 sheets, 1896-1937].

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849-51

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560