Lanarkshire-Airdrie-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21971

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]; Airdrie Library, local studies, U9 384

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Airdrie

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS761655

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 7067

Map title:

'Plan of the burgh of Airdrie from actual survey by J. Wood Edinr. 1825.'

Comments on map:

Composite entry from photocopy in NLS of ?1921 reissue, evidently reduced, and what seems to be a very careful transcript in Airdrie Library. Table of population, bottom left.

Scale:

1:3552*

Map-maker:

J. Wood, Edinr [author], W. Murphy, Edinr [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63.0 x 38.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough

Known copies of map:

NLS Wood's Town Plans, 1A [repro]; Airdrie Library U9 384 [apparently very clever transcript]; NLS R.290.g [1921: in James Knox, Airdrie, a historical sketch].

Industry:

distilling

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not as dense as usual for John Wood].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Cross East.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Mostly lacking in the more built-up part.

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560