Kirkcudbrightshire-Kirkcudbright-1843
CBTM:
23130
Map Date:
1843
Repository reference:
National Archives of Scotland RHP 12763
Historic county:
Kirkcudbrightshire
Town name:
Kirkcudbright
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NX682509
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NX 6454
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Kirkcudbright 1843.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy. Usual Wood style. Bottom right are note of population (males and females) in 1841, and distances from Kirkcudbright.
Scale:
1:1332
Map-maker:
John Wood, Surveyor, Canaan, Edinburgh [? sv, ? pb], Turner & Co. Sc. Edinburgh [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
51 x 86
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries, owners: Town and Earl of Selkirk's property.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, steps to buildings: [Steps to public buildings].
Mills:
watermills, (symbol)
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours, quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, misc: Wells in streets.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Old Steeple.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
cross
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: [Old and present].
Known copies of map:
NLS MS.5854, no.34; NASc RHP 12763 [photo]; NLS [website].
Industry:
ship yards
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground: Notably churchyard.
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle in ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Waterbodies:
shown, curling ponds
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
At bottom of map: 'Plan of the Borough', 1:6660*, with Castle or Camp, [Old] Churchyard, Nursery.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1852
1:1056
1:10,560
1894
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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