Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1849
CBTM:
22028
Map Date:
[1849]
Repository reference:
BL RB 23.a.14798
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Plan of Glasgow'.
Comments on map:
In Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland, 7th edition, Edinburgh: Black, 1849, f.p.213. [Seems to be engraved [? steel] rather than litho.]
Scale:
1:21,120
Map-maker:
G. Aikman sc. Edinburgh [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
22.7 x 14.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Many buildings emphasised but not described.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
incompletely shown
Public buildings:
customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
blind, deaf & dumb, hospitals, mental, misc: Asylum.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets, misc: Tontine.
Known copies of map:
John Moore's nos 51, 56. BL 10351.aa.28(1) [Economical guide] [1839: M.51.I]; Royal Faculty of Procurators Library, Hill Collection, Maps vol.1(16) [1842: litho tfr of central section in Fraser's Companion for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway: M.56]; BL 797.c.31, NLS NE.19.a.8 [1843: in ed 3: M.51.II]; NLS R.39.b [1845: in ed.4]; EGM 78 [1847]; BL RB.23.a.14798 [1849]; BL 10370.a.43 [1852: in ed 9: M.51.III]; [1854: in ed 11: M.51.IV]; BL 10370.a.44 [1856: ed 12: M.51.V]; BL 10370.a.45, EGM
Industry:
chemicals, ship yards
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
riding schools, public halls, museums
Parkland:
public parks, zoological gardens
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes, unspecified
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments, misc: [Cleland Testimonial].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
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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