Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1842 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21981

Map Date:

15.3.1842

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Glasgow, Partick

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NS592652

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 5864

Map title:

'Map shewing the respective localities of the different portions of the entailed estate of Milton belonging in property and superiority, to William Stuart Stirling Crawfurd Esq, of Milton.'

Comments on map:

Scale stated as 7.25 inches to 1 mile [1:8740]. Note [partly torn] bottom right, that compiled from plans by other surveyors. Urban mapping not detailed, and not much text, but may provide evidence of expansion of city.

Scale:

1:8740

Map-maker:

Thomas Kyle [author], Maclure & Macdonald, Draughtsmen & Lithographers, 57 Buchanan Street, Glasgow [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

98.5 x 72.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

estate: Water, roads and railways added by hand.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Places of Worship:

cathedral/principal church only

Welfare and charitable:

blind, mental

Education and academic:

observatories

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

John Moore's no.58: NLS EMS.s.579 [original]; NLS photocopy; NLS [website].

Industry:

ship yards, textiles, timber

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Parkland:

public parks

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1858

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:2500

1:10,560