Dumfries-1819 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22040

Map Date:

1819

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Town name:

Dumfries, Maxwelltown

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX973761

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NX 9876

Map title:

'Plan of the towns of Dumfries and Maxwelltown from actual survey by John Wood 1819.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Specifies scots chains of 74 ft 1.25 ins.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Wood, Canaan, Edinr. [sv, pb], Clerk Sculpt. Edinr. [eng], Dumfries, 1 North Bridge, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53.2 x 65.0 [map: plate 54.7 x 66.8].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, archways, public buildings emphasised: Apparent archways ('ladder' effect).

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named wells.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs, internal revenue

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets: [Fish Cross].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.c.137.81.1 [loose]; Dumfries, Ewart Library; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [apparently no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, rope walk, timber

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Chapel ruins.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Incomplete-looking in more built-up part].

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Relief:

shown partially: [A few mounds].

Monuments:

Monuments: [Duke of Queensbury's Monument].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Promenade. Projected streets shown with pecked lines.

Miscellaneous religious group:

Burns's Mausoleum.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Fragmentary in Maxwelltown.

Ordnance Survey's

1847-51

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560