Forfarshire [Angus]-Dundee-1777
CBTM:
22802
Map Date:
4.3.1777
Repository reference:
Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.1777
Historic county:
Forfarshire [Angus]
Town name:
Dundee
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO405302
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NO 4329
Map title:
'Plan of the town and harbour of Dundee with the adjacent country made from an actual survey by Wm. Crawford May 1776.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from reduced copy by McLagan & Cumming, Edinburgh: scale and dimensions not compensated.
Scale:
1:5400
Map-maker:
W. Crawford [sv], D. Lizars [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58 x 41
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Not markedly so: conventionalised pictograms for outlying large houses.
Mills:
windmills: [Old Wind Mill].
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours, river stairs
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells, named well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Defence and military:
misc.: Guard House.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
cross, markets, misc: Tron.
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BOL, Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.1777 [1777]; Dundee Central Library, Local History section, 1776 [photo of 1871 redrawing by Rob. W. Moncrieff]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 9353 [photo]; BL 2370.d.8, Dundee Central Lib [1776/1884: in Alex Maxwell, The history of Old Dundee]; NLS R.255.g [1776/1923: in A.H.Millar, ed, The first history of Dundee 1776]
Industry:
food/drink, rope walk, textiles, warehousing, timber, misc: Whale Fishery, Soap Work.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title on ship's sail, with ship behind and broken tree stump on front.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls: [Trades Hall].
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: Trades Hall, Town House; top right: Town & Harbour from the river; left: Old Steeple 156 Feet high; right: St Andrews Church 139 feet high [sic].
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
obelisks, statues, (pictorial)
Symbolic elements:
Ship's sail, ship, broken tree stump: in title.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial sailing vessels in harbour and sea.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Below view of town & harbour].
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry: Old Mill Dam.
Dedicee of map:
Hon. Patrick Maxwell, Provost, Magistrates and Town Council.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1857-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1871
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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