Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1832
CBTM:
22942
Map Date:
1832
Repository reference:
Glasgow, Mitchell Library, local studies, B.311187a
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
boundaries
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Franchise map of Glasgow shewing its extent, with all the latest improvements, and exhibiting the boundaries as laid down by the Parliamentary Commissioners within which Ten Pound Voters exercise the Burgh Franchise.'
Comments on map:
F.t.p. of An appeal to the middle classes of Glasgow on the right use of the elective franchise..., 3rd edition, Glasgow: Atkinson, July 1832. Not very sophisticated-looking.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
Atkinson & Co. [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.5 x 37.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
incompletely shown
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
blind, mental
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Parliamentary burgh boundary: tinted red.
Known copies of map:
John Moore's no.41: Mitchell Library B.311187a [in Appeal to middle classes of Glasgow, 3rd ed] [M.41].
Industry:
chemicals, distilling, engineering, ship yards, furniture/pottery, uncertain, misc: Works; Soda Works.
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways
Parkland:
public parks
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
shown partially
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
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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