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Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1807

CBTM:
21805
Map Date:
1.5.1807
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.50.52.2
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:
'Map of the city of Glasgow and suburbs. Surveyed and corrected till January 1807 by Peter Fleming Mem. of the Phil. Soc. of Glasgow'.
Comments on map:
Provision for colouring of parishes: not done on this copy.
Scale:
1:2280
Map-maker:
Peter Fleming [sv], R. Scott Edinburgh [eng], D. Niven & Co., Glasgow [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
172 x 120 [overall: engraved on six plates].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Projected buildings are shown without tenement divisions.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown, other: Granary.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Washing Green, Line of Pips for Conducting Spring Water [sic].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, misc: Humane Society House.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets, misc: Exchange, Tontine & Coffee Room.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, boundary markers: [Royalty, apparently with numbered and dated stones].
Known copies of map:
John Moore's nos 16, 23. NLS [website]; BLML K.50.52.2; GwUL, Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/9, Mitchell Library, Edinburgh City Archives 13.b, NLS EMS.s.690; [Glasgow] [in T.Annan: 1:10,320] [all M.16]; NASc RHP 40259 [original], Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/13, Mtl, EGM 44 [photo] [1821: David Smith: M.23].
Industry:
chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, glass, metallurgical processing, oil/soap etc, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Works, Cooperage, Warehouse, Coach Work.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Larger owners outside more built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title on rock with tree behind: shipping and barrels to left, bridge and town to right: in front a man sits on a barrel and a man and a woman seem to be launching a boat with 'Clyde' on the stern.
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, trade and livery company halls: Including Trades Hall.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: plan of Glasgow in 1779.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
Shipping, barrels, bridge, town, boat: around title.
Cemeteries:
shown
Geodetic notes:
Note of latitude and longitude at bottom of map.
Dedicee of map:
The Hon. Lord Provost, Magistrates and Town Council.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only, coffee houses: [Tontine & Coffee Room].
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: Variously to 1.0, 0.1, and 0.01 ft. Datum is above river at low water at the wooden bridge.
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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