Yorks-Sherburn in Elmet-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20311

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] GC/Ma 31A

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Sherburn in Elmet

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE493337

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 4836

Map title:

'A plan of the township of Sherburn in the West Riding of the county of York, by John Paver Jr. Land Surveyor, 1824.'

Comments on map:

Unclear whether actually an estate map. Record relates more particularly to the 'town' rather than to the map as a whole. Leeds & Selby and York & North Midland railways added neatly later.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

John Paver Jr. Land Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

116 x 213

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership

Colouring:

roads, water, owners, decorative: Three large owners, including Richard Oliver Gascoigne, are coloured; border and cartouche shaded grey.

Road names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] GC/Ma 31A.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Oak leaves round title.

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1845-8

1:10,560

1889-90

1:2500

1:10,560