Lanarkshire-Hamilton-1807 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22946

Map Date:

2.1807

Repository reference:

Hamilton Library, L912 (4143 Ham

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Hamilton

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS722557

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 7358

Comments on map:

Recorded from touched up photographic copy: additions include 'Map of Hamilton 1800', bottom left, but Richardson and date 1807 appear bottom right in a hand consistent with the original writing. Note of distances, bottom right, possibly to do with laying out of a new road. Unit of measurement not stated: Scots chains assumed.

Scale:

1:1776

Map-maker:

Thos Richardson Landsurveyor Glasw. [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

126 x 93

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Tendency to 'ribbons'.

Mills:

windmills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Known copies of map:

Hamilton Reference Lib L.912 (4143.Ham-1800) [photocopy: dated '1800'].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Several away from the built-up part].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Gradients noted along some roads.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560