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Yorks-Wetherby-1815

CBTM:
20318
Map Date:
? 1815
Repository reference:
West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds-Sheepscar] Acc.1914
Historic county:
Yorks, West Riding
Town name:
Wetherby
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SE404483
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SE 3447
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Wetherby in the county of York belonging to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire in its present state'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from indistinct photograph, on which the final text, including a possible date (1810s?) is illegible. Scale and dimensions have been compensated on basis of likely size of writing. Every building seems to be numbered, which perhaps explains the comparative lack of description. Record office attribution to P. Atkinson.
Scale:
1:792
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
99 x 56
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Arms seem multi-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
LCL ML (1811) [photo], West Yorkshire Archives [Leeds] Acc.1914 [photo].
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
holdings/occupiers: [Some occupiers].
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: watercolour of 'View of the Market place in its present state' [not much brick building is apparent], with illegible supplementary captions.
Arms and heraldry:
principal landowner.: [Presumed thus].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1846-8
1:10,560
1891-2
1:2500
1:10,560
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