Ayrshire-Troon-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21749

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

NLS NE.14.a.5

Historic county:

Ayrshire

Town name:

Troon

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS320310

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 2737

Map title:

'Plan of the town & harbour of Troon 1825.'

Comments on map:

In Ian M. Mackintosh, Old Troon and district [no publisher details: Forward dated September 1969], p.41: much reduced from an original of uncertain location. Dimensions etc as in book.

Scale:

1:13,800

Map-maker:

Willm Wilson, Troon [dr], J. Miller, Glasgow Lithog. Press [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19 x 14

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings: Houses built 'black', those intended 'faint'.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Almost everything shown is 'intended'.

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, misc: Intended breakwater and dock.

Known copies of map:

BOL G.A.Ayr 4o 22, NLS NE.14.a.5 [1969: reduced copy in Ian M. Mackintosh, Old Troon and district]; BOL G.A.Ayr 4o24 [1972: 2nd edn of Old Troon].

Industry:

salt, ship yards, rope walk

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [Low water specified as springs].

Stated measuerments:

soundings: Around point only.

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete: 'Intended Villas' only.

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560