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Dunbartonshire-Dumbarton-1818

CBTM:
22039
Map Date:
1818
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Dunbartonshire
Town name:
Dumbarton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS396754
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 4177
Map title:
'Plan of Dumbarton surveyed by John Wood. 1818.'
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of Scots chains: no value given.
Scale:
1:3552
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], T. Clerk [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
38.7 x 51.5 [map: plate 41.2 x 53.7].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Leven Grove is pictorial: cf Wood's 1:126,720 map of Dunbartonshire.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: Boat Vennel.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Water Pipe [under river], Wells in street.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: Town House inferred [emphasised, unnamed: opposite Gaol].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown, orchards: Orchards inferred from tree-patterns.
Known copies of map:
Dumbarton Library; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 13904 [photo]; Dumbarton Library [photocopy]; Bearsden Library [poor photo]; NLS [website].
Industry:
glass, uncertain, rope walk, timber, misc: Coal Yard, Kiln.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Relief:
prominent hills: [Apparent rills, etc., and castle rock].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1859
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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