Ayrshire-Irvine-1819 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22054

Map Date:

1819

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Ayrshire

Town name:

Irvine

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS322388

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 2737

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Irvine surveyed by John Wood, Edinr. 1819.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of Scots chains of 74 ft 0.25 ins.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Wood, Canaan, Edinr. [sv, pb], Clerk sculpt. [eng], Irvine [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58.5 x 34.0 [map: plate 60.0 x 36.3].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays: 'Pier' is a quay.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

misc: Golf Fields.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 1031, RHP 13044.

Industry:

stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, abbatoirs

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ships in river.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1859

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560