Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1830
CBTM:
22940
Map Date:
? 1830
Repository reference:
Glasgow, Mitchell Library, local studies, Miscellaneous Railway Pamphlets B53154-7 [original]; EGM 58A [photocopy]
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
uncertain
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 and its environs'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy: litho assumed from lettering style. Purpose unclear from the map alone, but John Moore says is Blythswood Estate vs railway & tunnel and attributes the lithography to Berkeley King.
Scale:
1:9600
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.0 x 32.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
transport., other: Entailed estate of Archibald Campbell Esq of Blythswood [blue], proposed railway [red].
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Blocks: numerous buildings emphasised, but very few are described.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Known copies of map:
John Moore's no.36: Glasgow, Mitchell Library, local studies, Miscellaneous Railway Pamphlets B53154-7, Royal Faculty of Procurators Library, Hill Collection, Maps vol 1(40) [original]; EGM 58A [photocopy].
Industry:
engineering
Railways:
projected or otherwise unbuilt lines
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks
Landowners and occupiers:
main owner only: [Archibald Campbell's estate].
Relief:
prominent hills: Around Blythswood estate.
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].
Estate boundary ownership:
main owner only: [Archibald Campbell's estate].
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
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