Argyllshire-Campbeltown-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21747

Map Date:

[1835]

Repository reference:

NLS R.288.b.

Historic county:

Argyllshire

Town name:

Campbeltown

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NR719203

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NR 7220

Map title:

'Plan of Campbelton and map of part of Kintyre, for Smith's Views of Campbelton.'

Comments on map:

Town map is top left part of map (Kintyre map is c.1:168,960), following title in Views of Campbelton and neighbourhood, Edinburgh: William Smith, n.d. [prefatory note dated February 1835].

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

W. Smith Jr. Lith [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.7 x 19.2 [overall: town 15.0 x 11.0].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

Campbeltown Public Library, NLS R.288.b, R.288.b;7.1.

Industry:

distilling, rope walk

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Dedicee of map:

[Book:] Duke of Argyll [the main landowner].

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Possibly unoccupied outlying plots only.

Ordnance Survey's

1865

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560