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Dunbartonshire-Dumbarton-1869

CBTM:
21928
Map Date:
1869
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 47304
Historic county:
Dunbartonshire
Town name:
Dumbarton
Map type:
boundaries
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS396754
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 4177
Map title:
'Plan of the Burgh of Dumbarton showing division into wards'.
Comments on map:
Copy signatures of 1869, bottom right: produced following passage of Dumbarton Water Works and Municipality Act 1869. Rolled with the map is a copy of the Edinburgh Gazette for 4 February 1870, publishing the division, with verbal description of the boundaries. Map is straightforward transcript of OS: Gale is assigned authoriship in NASc cards, as one of the signatories.
Scale:
1:2500
Map-maker:
? James M. Gale, C.E., Glasgow [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
125 x 104
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water, boundaries
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 47304.
Industry:
engineering, ship yards, rope walk, misc: Sailcloth.
Railways:
routes, named, rails
Waterbodies:
shown
Map material:
tracing linen
Cemeteries:
shown
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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