Forfarshire [Angus]-Dundee-1793 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22489

Map Date:

1793

Repository reference:

BL 600.h.27

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, harbour & suburbs of Dundee, with the adjacent country. From a survey in February 1793 by Wm Crawford & Son Landsurveyors at Cameron Bank, near Edinburgh.'

Comments on map:

F.t.p. of Robert Small, A statistical account of the parish and town of Dundee, in the year MDCCXCII, Dundee: Lesslie [sic], n.d. Top centre: 'Engraved for the History of Dundee', top right: 'To face the Title page'.

Scale:

1:5400

Map-maker:

Wm Crawford & Son, Landsurveyors at Cameron Bank, near Edinburgh [sv], Edwd. Leslie, Bookseller, Dundee [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.0 x 36.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some public buildings are pictorial: others shown inn some detail.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): [No sails].

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, navigation aids, piers, misc: Publick Warehouses.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial): The more prominent ones are pictorial.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 600.h.27(2), CUL 7474.c.12, Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.1793, NLS A.122.b, L.C.273 [1793: in in Robert Small, Statistical account of the parish & town of Dundee]; Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.1793, NLS EMS.p.3, National Archives of Scotland RHP 12356 [photo]; BL 10369.h.34, NLS R.290.c [1930: in J. Hannay Thompson, Dundee Harbour Trust Centenary 1830-1930].

Industry:

food/drink, glass, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Whale Fishing Warehouses. [Glafs Work shown pictorially].

River and foreshore features:

misc: Rocks in sea (+ + +).

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Some estates (not owners)].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Relief:

prominent hills: Mostly Dundee Law: impressive, but seems misplaced.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial sailing vessels in sea.

Cemeteries:

shown

Geodetic notes:

Latitude and longitude of pier, from Greenwich.

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