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Yorkshire 1835

Introduction - Description - Locations - Surrounding counties - Maps - Home page

Introduction

The map of Yorkshire differs from that of most counties in this series. It shows the boundaries of the North, West and East Ridings, and one town in each. There are separate maps for each Riding. For these see:
East Riding - North Riding - West Riding
Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Yorkshire in 1835, and a tactile map with braille lettering. This page explains and describes the maps. The Description section says what is on the map. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Yorkshire have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county and Riding boundaries are shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code YKS is in large letters in the bottom right corner of the map. Towns are large dots, with the name of the town nearby. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom left corner. Yorkshire is a coastal county, about 100 miles east to west by about 80 miles north to south.
Directions on map - West is left, East is right, North is up, South is down.

Locations

• Leeds in the centre of the West Riding WRY
• York at the southen tip of the North Riding NRY
• Hull on the southern boundary of the East Riding ERY

Other towns are shown on 4 maps: