Perthshire-Perth-1774
CBTM:
22464
Map Date:
1774
Repository reference:
BL 287.b.46
Historic county:
Perthshire
Town name:
Perth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO119236
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NO 1221
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Perth taken from an actual survey by A. Rutherford 1774'.
Comments on map:
F.t.p. in Vol. I of H. Adamson, ed by James Cant, The muses threnodie: or, mirthful mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Perth: Cant, Morison, 1774. Separate references for contemporary features and 'The antiquities of Perth'.
Scale:
1:3600
Map-maker:
A. Rutherford [sv], T. Kirkwood, Watchmaker, Perth [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
40.3 x 31.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: North and South shores.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Town's Stables.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BL 287.b.46, G.5241, NLS A.115.e.2, Perth A.K. Bell Library [ex Sandeman Library] [? originals] [1774: in H. Adamson, The Muses Threnodie]; A.K. Bell Library-Max; NLS EMS.s.462 [1820.c: manuscript copy]; CUL Maps.c.151.88.1, NLS A.118.b, Perth & Kinross Archives PE/P356, PE/P369, SRTO RHP 49265 [1889: litho, by Perthshire Courier]; [1891: in Robert Milne, rental books of King James VI hospital].
Industry:
food/drink, oil/soap etc, textiles, uncertain, misc: Factories, Snuff Mill.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Chapels, palaces of various notables, towers, monastic remains, archery practice site, Parliament, Cromwellian fortifications, gateways ('Ports').
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
'Dead-land': some buildings.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Top right: on belly of eagle, with motto abobe].
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1859-60
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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