Selkirkshire-Galashiels-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22460

Map Date:

1851

Repository reference:

BL 10369.k.10

Historic county:

Selkirkshire

Town name:

Galashiels

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT490365

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 5132

Map title:

'Plan of the Burgh of Galashiels 1851. Surveyed by Thomas T. Mitchell. Civil Engineer, Perth.'

Comments on map:

Transcript version, f.p. 126 in Robert Hall, The history of Galashiels, Galashiels: Alexander Walker, 1898.

Scale:

1:4500

Map-maker:

Thomas T. Mitchell, Civil Engineer, Perth [sv], J. Bower, Edinburgh [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

52.3 x 21.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

county, borough

Known copies of map:

BL 10369.k.10 [1898: in Robert Hall, The history of Galashiels]; Galashiels Library [photocopy].

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain: Mill.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Some mills].

Relief:

prominent hills

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560