Lanarkshire-Hamilton-1819 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22051

Map Date:

1819

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Hamilton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS722557

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 7358

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Hamilton surveyed by J. Wood 1819.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of Scots chains of 74 ft 1.25 ins specified.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

J. Wood, Canaan, Edinburgh [sv, pb], Clerk Sculpt. Edinr. [eng], Hamilton, Edinburgh [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53.0 x 43.5 [map: plate 55.0 x 45.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Washing Green, Pumps in streets.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, magazines/arsenals

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Hamilton Reference Lib; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 11535 [photo]; NLS [website].

Industry:

food/drink

Gardens:

shown: [Some annotated areas].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in most built-up part].

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Dove Cot.

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only: Patchy: often only frontages.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560