Forfarshire [Angus]-Montrose-1822
CBTM:
22063
Map Date:
1822
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Forfarshire [Angus]
Town name:
Montrose
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO714575
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NO 7257
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Montrose made by John Wood Edinr. 1822'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Population note beneath 'References'.
Scale:
1:3552*
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], T. Clerk, Edinr. [eng], Montrose, 1 North Bridge, Edinr. [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.0 x 64.0 [map: plate 52.2 x 65.3].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, archways, public buildings emphasised: 'Ladders' are probably arched passageways.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills: Circular building on Windmill Hill.
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, navigation aids
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Wells in street, Cistern.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
mental
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Angus Archives P76 [fragile], National Archives of Scotland RHP 1181/1-2, RHP 6372; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 13293 [tracing of part]; NLS [website].
Industry:
salt, engineering, stone/builders' yards, oil/soap etc, rope walk, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Snuff factory, several factories, Starchworks, Coal Yards, Boil Ho., Salmon Houses, Whalefishing establishment.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram, value (undated)
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons, trade and livery company halls, misc: Sailors Hall.
Relief:
shown partially: [Mounds and sandhills].
Post and telegraphs:
flagstaff: Pictorial.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial two-masted vessel in estuary.
Garden and park buildings:
sundials
Stated measuerments:
soundings, other: Note of tide velocity.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1861-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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