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Forfarshire [Angus]-Arbroath-1842

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
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