Yorks-Shipley-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20233

Map Date:

1854

Repository reference:

WYAS-Bradford BBD 6/1/363

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Shipley

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE148375

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1738

Map title:

'Shipley Local Board of Health

Comments on map:

Sheets 1 and 3 only of what was evidently in at least four sheets, accompanied by a smaller-scale (1:2640?) map. Title on sheet 1, legend and surprisingly ornate and colourful scales on sheet 3. Somewhat more refined than the Windhill map, Exeter 20231, and not by the same hand. Stamped 'Secd. Class Survey', 18 October 1854, by General Board of Health.

Scale:

1:528

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91 x 61 [x ? 4].

Number of parts:

4

Legends:

general legend: Legend shows: Line of Sewer with internal dimensions (red); change of diameter; manhole; connecting shaft. 'The positions of Letters refer to corresponding points similarly marked upon Sections.' S.G. (Sewer Grates), K.S. (Kitchin Sink), S. (Sink Stones), C.P. (Cess Pools), o (Privy), W.C. (Water Closet), W.C. underlined (Do. Overhead), W.C. overlined (Do. Sunk), W.H. (Washouse), W.S. (Water Supply), Cn. (Cistern), Cn overlined (Do. Sunk), R.S. (Rain Spout), D.B. (Dust Bin), St (Stable), C.H. (Coach house), Co.H. (Cow House), G.H. (Green House), A (Area), A overlined (Area Sunk), A underlined (Area Raised) B.M. [arrow] (Bench Mark).

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities, other: Railway earthworks etc brown; grey solid and with black dashes both used for wooden buildings, sheds and outhouses.

Road names:

partly

Building names:

partly, house numbers: Some back-to-backs on sheet 3 are numbered.

Buildings:

masonry distinguished, stables/coach houses, steps to buildings

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, sewers, misc: Legend shows: Line of Sewer with internal dimensions [red]; change of diameter; manhole; connecting shaft. 'The positions of Letters refer to corresponding points similarly marked upon Sections.' S.G. [Sewer Grates], K.S. [Kitchin Sink], S. [Sink Stones], C.P. [Cess Pools], o [Privy], W.C. [Water Closet], W.C. underlined [Do. Overhead], W.C. overlined [Do. Sunk], W.H. [Washouse], W.S. [Water Supply], Cn. [Cistern], Cn overlined [Do. Sunk], R.S. [Rain Spout], D.B. [Dust Bin], St [Stable], C.H. [Coach house], Co.H. [Cow House], G.H. [Green House], A [Area], A overlined [Area Sunk], A underlined [Area Raised] B.M. [arrow] [Bench Mark]. Reservoir serves a mill rather than public water supply.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Bradford] BBD 6/1/363.

Industry:

uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations, misc: 'Shed' on the two outer platforms; 'S.Lamp'.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Sidewalks.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Scales of feet and links are suspended from a drape: surprisingly decorative for an 1850s sanitary map.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Bed and surface altitudes of reservoirs. Altitudes noted as in feet and decimals above Ordnance Liverpool datum.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1844-6

1:10,560

1889-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560