Forfarshire [Angus]-Arbroath-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21852

Map Date:

7.2.1842

Repository reference:

NASc RHP RHP 2599

Historic county:

Forfarshire [Angus]

Town name:

Arbroath

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO643412

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 6138

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Arbroath from actual survey by John Wood Edinburgh corrected by John Jarron 7th Febry 1842, and republished by Patrick Wilson. Bookseller Arbroath.' Scale allegedly in imperial chains, but in fact seems to be in Scottish chains.

Comments on map:

Cleancut job, quite different from Wood's original. Note on population at bottom of legend.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinburgh [sv], John Jarron [author], Thomas McLeod, Edinburgh [eng], Patrick Wilson, Bookseller, Arbroath [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94.2 x 61.8 [map: plate 95.3 x 63.5].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, boundaries, other: Projected streets.

Colouring:

boundaries: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally: Four are North, East, South and West Grimsby.

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours, navigation aids, misc: Bell Rock Observatory.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Parliamentary boundary.

Known copies of map:

Angus Archives P22 [formerly at Arbroath Lib], NASc RHP 1140, NASc RHP 2599, TNA [PRO] MPD 1/138(4).

Industry:

salt, uncertain, rope walk, textiles, timber, abbatoirs: Mills.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Abbey Church in ruins: detailed plan with piers.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [In less built-up parts: nothing like John Wood's intensity].

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls: [Trades Hall].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Centre top-left: Abbey of Arbroath as it stood in 1780.

Relief:

prominent hills: Schematic-seeming.

Borders:

keyboard type

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ship in sea: untypical of period.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Bottom leftish].

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stone.

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560