Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1764
CBTM:
21857
Map Date:
9.1764
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 3945
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Plan of part of the City of Glasgow exhibiting chiefly the course of the Rivulet Molendiar, with its boundarys, bridges and dams: till where it is joined by the Brook called Camlaughie Burn. And from thence till they both fall into the River Clyde: below the Saw Mill. &c. &c. &c. September 1764'.
Comments on map:
No indication of authorship (catalogue attribution is to James Barrie): not very refined.
Scale:
1:1800
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.5 x 63.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use: Gardens green, waste yellow.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Roof-plans of churches and some other public buildings.
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Washing House, Fountain [pictorial].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
misc: Tolbooth.
Defence and military:
misc.: Main Guard.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 3945 [MS]; GwUL Mu1-b.1 [M.1.I: engraved, 1:1920]; GwUL Bh23-b.5 [M.1.II: engraved, 1:1920]; EGM 17; CUL RC.10.12 [1912: in R. Renwick (ed), Extracts from the records of the burgh of Glasgow, Vol 7, 1760-80].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
In empty space: bridge, etc, sections, 1:120.
Commons:
shown
Crosses:
cross: Mass of dots.
Stated measuerments:
other: Some stream lengths.
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
Ordnance Survey's
1857-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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