Forfarshire [Angus]-Dundee-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22804

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.1821

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 of Dundee from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1821.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from modern (unattributed) reduced facsimile, with scale and dimensions compensated.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Wood [sv], T. Clerk, Edinr. [eng], Dundee & 1 North Bridge, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

121 x 74

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, navigation aids, piers: Pictorial post on Beacon Rock.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, internal revenue

Defence and military:

barracks, magazines/arsenals

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [Royalty].

Known copies of map:

Dundee Central Library, Local History section,, National Archives of Scotland RHP 43; NLS [website].

Industry:

food/drink, ship yards, uncertain, rope walk, textiles, misc: Factory, Roodyards.

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated)

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Owners in less built-up parts].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls: [Trades Hall].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: St Andrews church; top right: old steeple: both rather similar to Crawford, 1777 [Exeter 22802].

Relief:

shown partially

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Two pictorial vessels in sea.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Sugar Ho, Old Mill.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

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