Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1783 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22938

Map Date:

1783

Repository reference:

Glasgow, Mitchell Library, local studies, EGM 28

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, 1783.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from mid-19th century transcript version. Seems rather similar to McArthur/'A.B.', 1779 [Exeter 22934]. Light on text.

Scale:

1:9000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.0 x 17.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Washing House.

Places of Worship:

cathedral/principal church only, (pictorial): [St Mungo].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards: Orchards assumed thus.

Known copies of map:

John Moore's no.8: Mitchell Library, EGM 28 [in John Mennon, Glasgow Magazine & Review, I, 1783, and Glasgow Almanack, 1784]; [Glasgow] [rough copy: frontispiece to D. Murray]; [Glasgow] [1848: Allen & Ferguson [litho]]; [Glasgow] [1881: in G. Stewart, Curiosities of Glasgow citizenship]; [Glasgow] [1881: in G. McGregor, History of Glasgow] [M.8].

Gardens:

shown: [College garden only].

Relief:

shown partially

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