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Maps

The Local Studies section in the Central Reference Library, Halifax has a collection of maps available for researchers. These mainly cover Calderdale but some relate to the wider Yorkshire area. As well as those listed below there are Parish Register maps which give the date of commencement of registers for parishes formed before 1832, covering part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and also Geological Maps.

Brighouse, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge Libraries also have small collections of historical maps relevant to their areas.

A number of maps in the collection have been digitised as part of the website supported by the Big Lottery Fund From Weaver to Web: online visual archive of Calderdale history| .

Individual maps (mostly Calderdale) – dated

• 1325-50: Facsimile of the ancient map of Great Britain (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
• 1577 SAXTON: Yorkshire
• 1610 SAXTON: West Riding of Yorkshire, eight miles to one inch
• 1611 SPEED: England – four volumes (bound), volume four covers Yorkshire
• 167? OGILBY: continuation of the extended road from Oakenham in Rutland to Richmond
• 1741 MOLL: West Riding of Yorkshire
• 1758 EYES: Plan of the part of the River Calder that lies between Sowerby Bridge and Halifax Brooksmouth, four miles to one inch
• 1765: Plan of the River Calder from Brooksmouth to Sowerby Bridge
• 1775 JEFFERYS: County of York surveyed in 1767, 1768, 1769 and 1770, one inch to one mile
• 1797 MOORE: Town and township of Halifax: eight chains to one inch
• 1822 BAINES: East and North Ridings of Yorkshire
• 1822 BAINES: West Riding and Ainsty
• 1823: Kingston upon Hull and environs
• 1824: Plan of the Township of Rastrick
• 1825: Town and Township of Halifax
• 1827 DAY: Plan of the town and township of Halifax, four chains to one inch
• 1827 ARNOTT and WASHINGTON: Township of Halifax
• 1833 KEMP and SOWERBY: Borough of Halifax, approximately six and three quarter inches to one mile
• 1834-5 MYERS: Parish of Halifax, approximately two and a half inches to one mile
• 1835 DAY: County Series reproduction
• 1842 RAWSON: Plan of the borough of Halifax, approximately one inch to 300 feet:
• 1850?: Township of Halifax, development between 1797 and 1850
• 1898: Halifax and Huddersfield, one inch to one mile, sheet 77
• 1898 Clitheroe, Nelson and Colne: one inch to one mile, sheet 68
• c1900 STODDART: Halifax - showing tram routes
• 1922 Halifax Corporation Bill: Savile Estate showing Heptonstall Moor with parts of Widdop and Wadsworth Moor
• 1928: Area added to the Borough of Halifax by the Halifax Extension Order, 1928
• 1934/5: Ordnance Survey (OS): Map for the Halifax Extension Bill
• 1939: Inland Waterways of England
• 1945: County Borough of Halifax Housing Acts 1936-44, Page Hill and Tewit Lane temporary housing sites (on undated base map)
• (1959) Halifax, Town of Many Trades – based on painting of 1959
• 1964: Proposed county district amalgamating Brighouse Metropolitan Borough and Elland Urban District
• 1967: Goad Plan: Halifax, revised 1994
• 2000: Goad Plan: Todmorden, published 2001
• 2001: Goad Plan: Brighouse
• 2001: Goad Plan: Halifax, published 2002.

Individual maps (mostly Calderdale) – undated

• Yorkshire Electric Power Company
• Environs of Halifax
• Cash Supply Stores Ltd, Halifax
• BURNETT: The Calder and Hebble Navigation, a pictorial waterways map
• DAY and SON: Plan of the township of Elland, 20 inches to one mile
• Plan of the City of York
• CARY: Yorkshire
• CARY: Southern part of the West Riding
• Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and its connections (two scales).

Sets / part sets of maps

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