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Perthshire-Dunkeld-1823

CBTM:
22043
Map Date:
1823
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Perthshire
Town name:
Dunkeld
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO026426
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NO 0441
Map title:
'Plan of Dunkeld surveyed by J. Wood 1823'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 74-foot chains.
Scale:
1:3552
Map-maker:
J. Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.8 x 50.0 [map: plate 61.3 x 51.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, archways, public buildings emphasised: 'Ladder' effects are presumably arched passages.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; A.K. Bell Library-Max; Perth & Kinross Archives CC1/P82; A.K. Bell Library Plan Chest 5, Drawer 1 [photo].
Industry:
textiles
Gardens:
nurseries: ['Furrow' effect].
Magnetic data:
diagram, value (undated)
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Cathedral ruins, Remains of Birnam Wood.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: 'Plan of the town and environs of Dunkeld'.
Relief:
prominent hills
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial): [Small pictogram].
Garden and park buildings:
sundials
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1863
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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