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Lanarkshire-Glasgow

CBTM:
22048
Map Date:
1822.
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
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:
'... Map of the ten parishes within the Royalty and the parishes of Gorbals & Barony of Glasgow prepared for the enumeration of the inhabitants...'
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas, but not otherwise his work: a note bottom right says that it is 'constructed... from a number of other detached maps & plans of acknowledged accuracy' by Smith. The date is on the inset map. Various notes on boundaries around map: a boundary as much as a street map. (Only streets actually built seem to be shown.)
Scale:
1:10,560
Map-maker:
David Smith, Surveyor [author], Kirkwood & Son [eng], James Cleland [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
44.0 x 74.2 [map: plate 48.8 x 77.5].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Frontages and churches only.
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
deaf & dumb, mental, misc: Asylum.
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, observatories
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, boundary markers: [Apparently royalty boundary with numbered march stones; A.R. and Ex.R. presumably indicate ancient and extended royalty]: parishes numbered, but boundaries are indicated by hand-colour, omitted from this copy.
Known copies of map:
John Moore's nos 27, 39. Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/27, EGM 46, National Archives of Scotland RHP 142, RHP 4331 [1822]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website] [1832 version]; Mitchell Library, NLS [1822]; Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/17, EGM 59 [1831: M.39].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles
Gardens:
nurseries
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [A brewery].
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: 'Map of the Barony Parish and the Royalty of Glasgow', 1:63,360*.
Relief:
slopes shown
Dedicee of map:
Hon. John Thomas Alston, Lord Provost of Glasgow.
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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