Inverness-shire-Inverness-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22053

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Inverness-shire

Town name:

Inverness

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NH667454

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NH 6643

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Inverness from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1821'.

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scales of 66 foot chains. Has 1:15,840 extension to mouth of Caledonian Canal.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinr. [sv], T. Clerk [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.2 x 67.2 [map: plate 52.0 x 68.2].

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, quays: Quay is 'Old pier'.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Privvy [not public?].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, internal revenue

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools: With Playground and Ball Wall.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Highland Archive (Inverness) D55, Inverness Museum, National Archives of Scotland RHP 2183; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; Highland Archive (Inverness) D.38/8 [copy].

Industry:

distilling, engineering, food/drink, rope walk, textiles, timber

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

nurseries: [With 'furrows'].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks, newspaper offices

Antiquities:

House where Prince Charles lodged in 1746, Cromwell's Fort.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Not complete in most built-up part: includes innkeepers].

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons, learned societies

Relief:

prominent hills

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only

Ordnance Survey's

1867

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560