Forfarshire [Angus]-Dundee-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22767

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 2845

Historic county:

Forfarshire [Angus]

Town name:

Dundee

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NO405302

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 4329

Map title:

'Plan of the harbour of Dundee exhibiting the extension to the eastward and other improvements now in progress. 1836.'

Comments on map:

Leslie's name appears outside frame, bottom right. Includes projected docks, and immediately adjoining built-up areas.

Scale:

1:3800

Map-maker:

James Leslie, Resident Engineer [? author], D. Nimmo, Lithog. Edinr. [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.2 x 28.8

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, navigation aids: Including docks under construction and proposed.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, municipal depots, misc: Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Known copies of map:

Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.5.c.1836, National Archives of Scotland RHP 2845 [1836]; Dundee Central Library, Local History section, D.5.c.1840.

Industry:

engineering, ship yards

Railways:

routes, named, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines

Magnetic data:

diagram

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [In more outlying parts].

Stated measuerments:

spot heights, other: Dock acreages; soundings in feet and inches; notes on tides and dock sills.

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