Dunbartonshire-Dumbarton-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21712

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

NLS [county folder]

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

Comments on map:

Inset on Dumbartonshire surd. by Wood for the Atlas of Scotland, 1:126,720.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[John] Wood [sv], John Thomson [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.2 x 15.2 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

water mains: Water pipe under river (Water of Leven).

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Castle, bristling with batteries].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL 8500(4), BOL C18 e.4/7, Dumbarton Library; NLS [county folder] [photo]; NLS [website]; NASc RHP 4345 [?1862: W. & A.K. Johnston: pl.15 of Atlas].

Industry:

glass, rope walk, uncertain: Kiln.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

public parks

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents: [Not in built-up part: not as incongrous as it might seem on a county map, as country houses have their owners given. (An evolutionary link between Wood the county mapmaker and Wood the urban mapmaker? Flatter the potential customers??)]

Relief:

slopes shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Some between owners.

Ordnance Survey's

1859

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560