Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1792 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21979

Map Date:

1792

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]; NLS Z.2/79

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 from an actual survey 1792'.

Comments on map:

Scale is about 1 inch to 520 feet. Marked lack of text.

Scale:

1:6240

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.0 x 37.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers, misc: Washing House.

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools, observatories: [Grammar School].

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

John Moore's nos 9, 11: Mtl, EGM 30 [1790]; GwUL [1790-1: M.9]; NLS MS.1647.Z.2/79.a [1792]; CUL Maps.aa.146.79.1, [Glasgow] [1795: M.11].

Industry:

glass, rope walk, furniture/pottery, abbatoirs

Gardens:

shown: Some similar to orchards, others by annotation: former may be ornamental, latter for vegetables.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Title on drape, with urn on top and sea and ships in background.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial single-masted sailing vessels in river and at the Broomielaw.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

misc: Herds House.

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