Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1822 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22952

Map Date:

10.4.1822

Repository reference:

Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/319

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Glasgow

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS592652

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 5864

Map title:

'A reduced map of the City and Royalty of Glasgow, exhibiting the tracks of the Public Roads leading into and crossing the same. Glasgow, 10th April 1822.'

Comments on map:

Style is very much a 'manuscript' one: printing is quite clear. Bottom centre is declaration by William Kyle, 10 April 1822.

Scale:

1:12,000

Map-maker:

Watsons Lithographic Press, 169 George St, Glasgow [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45.0 x 56.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries, other: Toll bars: all hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Frontage-shading effect.

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [Royalty and extended royalty].

Known copies of map:

John Moore's no.26: Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/319, Royal Faculty of Procurators Library, Hill Collection, Maps vol 2(5) [M.26].

Antiquities:

Sites of former ports of city.

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560