Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1828 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21683

Map Date:

1828

Repository reference:

NLS Signet s.107

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Glasgow

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT592652

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 5864

Map title:

'Plan of the city of Glasgow and its environs with all the latest improvements accurately surveyed by Mr David Smith. 1828.'

Comments on map:

Bottom right are scales of Standard Chains (66 feet), Scots Chains (74 feet), and Feet, and note of latitude and longitude.

Scale:

1:4800

Map-maker:

David Smith [sv], R. Scott, Edinr. [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

93.0 x 60.7 [maximum: plate 93.8 x 61.2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, quays, misc: Sheds on quayside, Harbour Masters Office.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, water works, misc: Washing House, Manure Depot, Cistern.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

blind, deaf & dumb, mental: [Lunatic Asylum has divisions of gardens into sexes and Highest Rank and Lowest Rank (including paupers)].

Education and academic:

schools, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars, exchanges, markets, misc: [Horse Bazar: sic], Tontine; sheep pens mapped.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc, boundary markers: Old boundary of Royalty; [numbered boundary marks].

Known copies of map:

John Moore's nos 32, 33, 52. Glasgow City Archives TD 822/1, Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/16A, /16B [2 copies] [1827: M.32]; GwUL, Mitchell Library, EGM 52, NLS Signet.s.107, Signet.s.108[1828: M.33]; EGM 68A [original], NLS EMS.p.52 [photocopy] [1839: M.52].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, ship yards, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain, misc: Bottle, Crystal, Lampblack, Extract of Coal Tar, Soap and Soda works, Mills, Bleaching Ground, Cooperage.

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways, goods depots

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools, public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners, notable residents, owners shown incompletely: [Undeveloped land].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes, learned societies

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments, statues

Crosses:

cross

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: One 'Summit 157'10''', in north-east.

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