Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1888
CBTM:
21741
Map Date:
[1888]
Repository reference:
NLS Map.s.183.5
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:
'Visitor's guide. Plan of Glasgow.'
Comments on map:
Cheerful rather than refined. Advertisements on back are dated 1888.
Scale:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
Allan & Ferguson, 126 Renfield St, Glasgow [pr, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
46.0 x 37.3 [map: 55.0 x 44.7 overall].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, transport, water: Hotels, theatres, rivers, squares & parks, dwellings & business premises, churches, tramways, railways.
Colouring:
Buildings, water, other: Built-over areas brown, public open space green, other ground grey; hotels and tramlines red, churches by light blue disks.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings pictorial.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Cathedral pictorial.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges
Known copies of map:
NLS Map.s.183.5.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, museums
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Reference system:
squaring: 2.55-inch.
Cemeteries:
shown
Street tramways:
routes shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
hotels or principal inns only
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: International Exhibition 1888.
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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