Historical Map of Bradford

Description

Taking as its base a 1921 Ordnance Survey map of the town, the Historical Map of Bradford covers the three conservation areas of Bradford city centre, Manningham and Little Germany. On a multi-period map it shows how Bradford grew rapidly from a modest medieval village and small market town into a leading manufacturing centre during the Industrial Revolution. The map includes lost buildings, industrial sites, cemeteries, earthworks and sites of interest as well as those that remain. A comprehensive gazetteer on the map’s reverse, complete with many illustrations and subsidiary maps, explains the complex development of the city.

Bradford’s rapid growth created extremes of wealth and poverty but also spurred important innovations in public welfare and new civic institutions which are evident in the imposing nineteenth century redevelopment of the city centre. All of this makes the map a fascinating and unique insight both into Bradford’s past and into that of Britain’s Industrial Revolution as a whole.