Yorks-Shipley-1863 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20235

Map Date:

1863

Repository reference:

Bradford Central Library, Local Studies, SHI.1863.PLA

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Shipley

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE148375

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 1738

Map title:

'Plan of Shipley. 1863'.

Comments on map:

Reference to landowners on right side of map. Publisher information appears under the vignette of the church, where also is 'The Measurements of this Plan were taken from the Town's Books'. In practice, may derive substantially from the 1:528 and ?1:2640 [Exeter 20233].

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Firth, Sun Bridge, Bradford [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

67.0 x 51.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bradford Library SHI.1863.PLA.

Industry:

engineering, uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Rural owners].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: Saltaire Model Mill [outside mapped area], with dimensions and opening date (1853); bottom right, St Pauls Church, Shipley.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milepost with distances.

Ordnance Survey's

1844-6

1:10,560

1889-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560