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Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1856

CBTM:
22953
Map Date:
? 1856
Repository reference:
Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/32
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
Historical
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Comments on map:
To indicate city growth in 1778, 1807, 1821 and 1856. Notes top left on population and areas in those years. Colourful map. The part bottom right, which may have contained title and authorship statements, has been neatly cropped.
Scale:
1:8880
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
121.5 x 90.0 [present dimensions].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours, boundaries
Colouring:
water, other: Growth in 1778, 1807, 1821 and 1856.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Blocks.
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks: Proposed.
Places of Worship:
cathedral/principal church only
Welfare and charitable:
mental, workhouses, misc: House of Refuge.
Education and academic:
observatories
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: Municipal boundary.
Known copies of map:
Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/32.
Industry:
engineering, uncertain: Works.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks
Waterbodies:
shown
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelson's Monument].
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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