Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1782
CBTM:
22769
Map Date:
? 1782
Repository reference:
National Archives of Scotland RHP 5973
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, Caltoun and environs; with an exact delineation of its Royalty. From an actural Survey by James Barry Surveyor in Glasgow Engraved by Alexr Baillie'.
Comments on map:
Scale has '1 mile being 52 ___ feet'.
Scale:
1:6216
Map-maker:
James Barry Surveyor in Glasgow [sv], Alexr Baillie [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.0 x 94.8 [2 plates: plates 68 x 96 when combined].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: A few buildings slightly emphasised, but no text. A few isolated houses are pictorial, e.g. Cow-lairs.
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wafhing houfe.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): 'High Church'.
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, boundary markers: [Royalty, numbered boundary-marks].
Known copies of map:
John Moore's no.7: Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/6A-E [5 copies]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 5973, RHP 5974 [annotated] ['c.1778']; EGM 27 [sic], Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/6F-H [3 copies] [1906: lith Gavin Watson: in Marwick, reduced]; CUL P690.c.31.36, NLS Alex.I.3 [Johnston: SGM, 1921]; [Glasgow Herald, 22:7:1924: reduced]; RSGS [drawr I-12] [facsimile].
Industry:
textiles: [Bleach-field].
Gardens:
shown: [College Garden; a few at Little Govan].
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground: [Greens: High Green has Herd's houfe].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco with trees and two severed tree-stumps 'outside'.
Relief:
shown partially
Symbolic elements:
Trees and stumps: in cartouche.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in river off Broomielaw and in canal.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [At top of cartouche].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
cow-keeping: [Cow-lairs].
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
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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