Ayrshire-Ayr-1818 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22032

Map Date:

1818

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Ayrshire

Town name:

Ayr

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS337220

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 3424

Map title:

'Plan of the towns and part of the parishes of Ayr Newton upon Ayr & Saint Quivox surveyed by John Wood Edinr. 1818.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scots chains of 74 feet specified.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Wood, Canaan, Edinr. [sv, pb], Kirkwood [eng], Ayr [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

59.3 x 51.2 [map: plate 61.0 x 52.8].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

navigation aids, piers

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Wells, Washing Green, Pump.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets: [Malt Cross, Fish Cross].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 13044; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; North Ayrshire; Ayrshire Archives ATD 33/3 [copy]; NLS [website].

Industry:

salt, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, rope walk, textiles, timber

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Old church tower.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [Outlying owners].

Relief:

shown partially

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, coffee houses: [Coffee Room].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1854-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560