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Yorks-Wakefield-1851

CBTM:
20280
Map Date:
1851
Repository reference:
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 96B17
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Wakefield
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE333208
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 3619
Map title:
'Plan of the parliamentary and municipal borough of Wakefield comprising the township of Wakefield and parts of the townships of Alverthorpe cum Thornes & Stanley cum Wrenthorpe all in the parish of Wakefield distinguishing the wards, ecclesiastical and rating districts into which it is divided: with contour lines.'
Comments on map:
Table of population in 1851 by township and district, south-east sheet, bottom right.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
I.T. White, Land and Mineral surveyor, Wakefield [author], J.R. Jobbins, 3 Warwick Court, London [lith], Charles Hicks, Bookseller, Wakefield, and Longmans & Co., London [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
61 x 52 [x 4].
Number of parts:
4
Legends:
general legend
Road names:
generally: Thorough, including yards.
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Some generalisation in built-up part.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Warehouses, Staiths.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Gas Column, Pump.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police, internal revenue, misc: West Riding Register Office.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries, hospitals, workhouses, misc: West Riding House of Refuge.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, fairgrounds, markets: [Cattle Fair with pens].
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish, township, Ward, misc: Divisions of townships.
Known copies of map:
Borthwick CC.EC 11/67, West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] NPC 3/1/1/38 (1262), Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.B.17, MD225/52.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, engineering, ship yards, oil/soap etc, rope walk, textiles, uncertain: Mills.
Railways:
routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways, misc: Booking Office.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, misc: Church Institution.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left of north-west sheet: south-west view of the West Riding Proprietory School.
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
coal
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Intended streets. Some road and rail directions at map edges.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
contours, spot heights, other: Not many spot heights; Contour Datum Point. Datum for heights is 71 ft 6 ins above Liverpool datum.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1848
1:1056
1:10,560
1888
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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