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Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1842

CBTM:
22075
Map Date:
1842
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 12.e.2
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow, Partick
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Map of the City of Glasgow brought down to the present time including the Parliamentary boundaries, division of parishes, police wards of the city, & suburbs, &c, &c, with intended improvements by George Martin Esqre. Civil Engineer & Surveyor.'
Comments on map:
Scales of imperial and Scottish chains, feet and furlongs: 1:4620 was suggested by John Moore, and fits bettter than 1:4752 or 1:4800. Notes on population in 1842 on left, latitude and longitude on south, with note that is 8 miles further south than Edinburgh.
Scale:
1:4620
Map-maker:
George Martin Esqre., Civil Engineer & Surveyor [sv], W. & A.K. Johnston, Geographers to the Queen, Edinburgh [eng, pb], James Lumsden & Son and Robert Weir, Glasgow, and John Johnstone, Edinburgh [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
187 x 123
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Reference system
Colouring:
boundaries: Hand-colouring of administrative divisions.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Projected buildings lack hatching.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, river stairs, misc: Sheds, Proposed New Harbour, with capacity, proposed wharves.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, water works, misc: Washing Green, Wells on Glasgow Green.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs, police
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
blind, deaf & dumb, hospitals, infirmaries, misc: Asylum, Humane Society House.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories: [Including Magnetic Observatory].
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets, misc: Tontine.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc, boundary markers: Parliamentary, quoad civilia parishes; [numbered march stones].
Known copies of map:
John Moore's no.60: BLML Maps 12.e.2, Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/23A-V [multiple copies], Mitchell Library, EGM 73, RGS MR 14.A.322 [515646].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, glass, smithing, oil/soap etc, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, uncertain, misc: Factory, Mills, Extract of Coal Tar Work, Crystal Work, Cooperage, Brush Work, Type Foundary, Snuff Mill, Carpet Factory.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations, misc: Viaduct arches.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners, industrial owners, notable residents: [Some owners in more open parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, trade and livery company halls
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: 'Plan of the city of Glasgow in the year 1778'; along bottom, all about 1:23,760: 'Index map for the Parliamentary districts', 'Index map for the municipal districts', 'Index map to the police wards', 'Index map to the quoad civilia parishes'.
Relief:
slopes shown
Borders:
decorative: Heavy multiple-keyboard.
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments
Reference system:
distance circles: 0.5-mile circles from the Cross.
Crosses:
cross
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict extraction: Old Coal Pit.
Dedicee of map:
James Campbell, Esq., Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only, coffee houses: [Coffee Room].
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In river: in feet.
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
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