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Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1841

CBTM:
22954
Map Date:
1841
Repository reference:
Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/22B
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:
'Parliamentary Franchise Map of City of Glasgow shewing the same as divided into police districts & wards, 1841.'
Comments on map:
Little text other than admininistrative divisions and street names. Very sharp image: indicates how lithography had come on since the 1822 map [Exeter 22952].
Scale:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
Maclure & Macdonald, Draughtsmen & Lithographers, 57 Buchanan Street, Glasgow [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
80.0 x 55.3
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Blocks only.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward, misc: The districts of which the wards are divisions.
Known copies of map:
John Moore's nos 55, 66: Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/22B [1841: printed: M.55]; Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/28A, 28B [2 copies] [1846: M.66].
Industry:
ship yards, uncertain: Works.
Railways:
routes, named
Gardens:
nurseries
Parkland:
public parks
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
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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