Yorks-Sowerby-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16846

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale], SBS 4

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Sowerby

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE059236

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 0425

Comments on map:

Surveyed in 1840-1. Rating assumed: fields numbered, no reference to hand.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

G. Crowther, Huddersfield [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

222 x 213

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Yorkshire Archives [Calderdale] SBS 4.

Industry:

textiles, uncertain: Mills.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations, misc: Tunnel: no sidings, and no rails from just west of Sowerby tunnel.

River and foreshore features:

old river courses: [Centre of ancient course of River Calder].

Miscellaneous:

Considerable variety of lettering, according to size of settlement.

Waterbodies:

shown, fish ponds

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560