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A 1560 map of Leeds As the sixteenth century drew to a close, and while the seventeenth was still young, the towns-folk of Leeds secured in the first instance at their own cost, in the second by a strictly limited Royal favour two important privileges—the right of electing their own vicar and of governing themselves in municipal affairs.
John Cossins (1697 in Brompton-by-Sawdon – 1743) was an early cartographer, known for the following city maps: plan of Leeds (c.1730) titled "A New and Exact Plan of the Town of Leedes" [1] map of York (1726): "New and Exact Plan of the City of York" This displayed fashionable new houses around the margin of the map. [2]
Janet Douglas (February 1943 – 4 November 2024) was an English historian and academic whose later work focused on the city of Leeds in the modern period, particularly art history and architecture. She was Principal Lecturer of Politics and Social History at Leeds Polytechnic, later Leeds Metropolitan University and now Leeds Beckett ...
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
1866 map of Leeds 19th-century Briggate, Leeds. In 1801, 42% of the population of Leeds lived outside the township, in the wider borough. Cholera outbreaks in 1832 and 1849 caused the authorities to address the problems of drainage, sanitation, and water supply. Water was pumped from the River Wharfe, but by 1860 it was too heavily polluted to ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
English: In January 1643, a Parliamentarian assault, led by Thomas Fairfax, captured Leeds. The map shows the approximate extent of Leeds at the time, and the avenues of attack taken by the Parliamentarians.
A map from 1736 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary. The Northern Neck Proprietary – also called the Northern Neck land grant, Fairfax Proprietary, or Fairfax Grant – was a land grant first contrived by the exiled English King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in colonial Virginia.