Yorks-Skipton-1832 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20279

Map Date:

1832

Repository reference:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 95C20

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Skipton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD990517

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 9752

Map title:

'... Plan of Skipton...'

Comments on map:

The Yorkshire Archaeological Society copy is a dyeline copy of a reliable-looking modern transcript, from an original of unknown provenance. The reference, bottom left, notes that the properties of Lord Thanet and the Duke of Devonshire are let on leases of 40 to 60 years, renewable. Note of population in 1821, bottom right.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

John Wood, Croft, Yorkshire [sv, pb], W. Murphy, Edinburgh [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.5 x 47.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

owners: Lord Thanet's property red, Duke of Devonshire's yellow.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown, other: Boat Ho., Sweg [sic].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society 95.C.20 [transcript]; BOL G.A. Yorks 4o 728, CUL 9474.b.1165 [in R.G. Rowley, The book of Skipton, 1983].

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk, textiles, uncertain: Mill.

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Multiple road directions to other towns where roads leave map.

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon Earl of Thanet.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1850

1:1056

1:10,560

1890

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560