Ayrshire-Kilmarnock-1868
CBTM:
21690
Map Date:
1868
Repository reference:
NLS Map.Fac.b.C18:45K
Historic county:
Ayrshire
Town name:
Kilmarnock
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS427380
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 4142
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Kilmarnock adapted from Government survey. 1868.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from p.41 in James Knox, Maps of Kilmarnock 1792-1992, Kilmarnock and District History Group. Apparently for a street directory: straightforward copy of Ordnance Survey, with more generalised buildings.
Scale:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
James McKie [? author, ? pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
17.3 x 33.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Parliamentary.
Known copies of map:
NLS Map.Fac.b.C18:45K [1992: in James E. Knox: Maps of Kilmarnock, 1792-1992: a selection, Kilmarnock & District History Group].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, textiles, abbatoirs, uncertain: Works, Mill.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways
Gardens:
nurseries
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Crosses:
cross
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1859
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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