Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1778
CBTM:
21978
Map Date:
7.11.1778
Repository reference:
NLS [open access photocopy]
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Plan of the city of Glasgow: Gorbells and Caltoun, from an actual survey by John McArthur Surveyor in Glasgow.'
Scale:
1:2664
Map-maker:
John McArthur, Surveyor in Glasgow [sv], Alexr. Baillie and James Lumsden [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
122 x 91
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial): [Tower without sails].
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Washing Green, Washing House, Well [by river].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police: 'Guard'.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: [Royalty].
Known copies of map:
John Moore's no.2: BLML Maps 9555 (1), BL 10370.e.25, CUL Maps.BB.146.77.1, GwUL, Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/5A, Mtl, EGM 22, NLS Map.Rol.c.4; Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/5B, Mitchell Library, EGM 23 [1860: David Smith, litho transcript]; [Glasgow] [1871: in T. Annan, Old maps of Glasgow, 1:8400]; [Glasgow] [n.d., Laidlaw & Mackenzie]; NLS R.253.e [1884: in D. Robertson [pb], Glasgow Past & Present, Vol I, 582]; NLS Alex.I.3 [n.d. [1921]: Johnston]; CUL P690.c.31.36 [1921: in SGM 37]; [Glasgow] [n.d., Forrester & Nichol, 1:5400]; NLS photocopy.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, glass, rope walk, timber, abbatoirs, misc: Incle Manufactory.
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways: [Waggon Way: dotted lines].
Gardens:
shown, physic gardens: Some similar to orchards, others by annotation: former may be ornamental, latter for vegetables.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Some in less built-up areas].
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title on 'slab', with in background, on left, High Church [St Mungo], in foreground cat, bales, barrels, etc, to right sea with sailing vessels.
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Cat, bales, barrels, sailing vessels: around title.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Above dedication, top right].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
misc: Herd's houfe.
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Lord Provost, Bailies, Dean of Gilds and the other Counsellors of the city.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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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