Yorks-Skipton-1860 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20328

Map Date:

1860

Repository reference:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society DD 121/Add/11

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Skipton

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD990517

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 9752

Map title:

'Map of the Skipton Local Board of Health District shewing the lines of new sewers the new reservoir & filter bed. Designed & carried out by T. Curley, C.E., F.G.S. 1860.'

Comments on map:

The map is a curious mixture of a board of health plan and a John Wood-type map: inns are noted via numbers and a reference, and there is a note of the areas of the town and country portions of the district..

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

T. Curley [? author], Standidge & Co. Litho. 36 Old Jewry, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

73.3 x 98.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, sewers

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets, misc: Craven Agricultural Show Field.

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Local Board of Health.

Known copies of map:

Yorkshire Archaeological Society DD121/Add/11.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, metallurgical processing, textiles, uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, named, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At bottom of map: geological sections, 1:360, along sewers and through reservoir at top.

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

There is a note of latitude and longitude and time behind Greenwich of Skipton church (53.57.46.8 N, 2.0.55.2 W, 8 m. 3 2/3 s.), though no trigonometrical point is shown on the church.

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: Most spot heights to 1 ft, but a few to O.1 ft, bench marks to O.1 ft: includes surface and bottom of canal.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1850

1:1056

1:10,560

1890

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560