Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1829 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21699

Map Date:

8.1829

Repository reference:

NLS Stevenson Deposit [Parcel 3, no. 10]

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Glasgow

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NS592652

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 5864

Map title:

'Plan of part of the city of Glasgow shewing the line of a proposed tunnel & railway... August 1829'.

Comments on map:

Neighbourhood of proposed railway mapped more carefully than the city centre further east.

Scale:

1:11,000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.0 x 33.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown

Welfare and charitable:

mental

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

John Moore's no.34: NLS Stevenson Deposit [Parcel 3, no.10].

Industry:

distilling, engineering, textiles, uncertain, misc: Soda Works, Works.

Railways:

routes, named, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Only in vicinity of railway near the Clyde.

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560