Yorks-Wakefield-1728 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20269

Map Date:

1728

Repository reference:

Wakefield Library, Local Studies, maps drawer, 2.29

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Wakefield

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SE333208

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 3619

Map title:

'Extract from a map of several parcels of land at Wakefield & surveyed for The Right Honble. Thos Earl of Strafford by John Dickinson. Anno 1728.'

Comments on map:

Photo of 19th century transcript of original: both original and transcript are of uncertain provenance. The town is shown by strips of 'ribbon development': there is really no useful 'urban' information at all.

Scale:

1:3168*

Map-maker:

John Dickinson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

73 x 52

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Wakefield Library Map Drawer 2.29 [copy].

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:1056

1:10,560

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560