Ayrshire-Kilmarnock-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21691

Map Date:

1880

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, 1880.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from p.43 in James Knox, Maps of Kilmarnock 1792-1992, Kilmarnock and District History Group. For Archibald McKay, The history of Kilmarnock, 4th edition, 1880: a more refined copy of Ordnance Survey than is the 1868 map [Exeter 21690].

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

Charles Reid [? author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.7 x 29.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL 010370.eee.54, NLS A.118.f [1880: in Archibald McKay, The history of Kilmarnock, 4th ed]; 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, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain: Mill, Works.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Parkland:

public parks

Crosses:

cross

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1859

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560