Perthshire-Perth-1783
CBTM:
21787
Map Date:
1783
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.50.68
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:
'Perth'.
Comments on map:
Inset [bottom left] on The counties of Perth and Clackmannan, 1:63,360.
Scale:
1:4800
Map-maker:
James Stobie [sv, pb], Thomas Conder, London [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
22.0 x 23.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Not very generalised: 'ordinary' buildings stippled, public ones hatched: distinction is very subtle.
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: North and South Shores.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
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:
BLML Maps *9905(8), BLML K.Top.50.68, CUL Atlas.0.77.2 2, RGS, Perth & Kinross Archives CC1/P185, A.K. Bell Library Plan Chest 5, Drawer 4, NASc RHP 570, RHP 2082, RHP 3664, RHP 9437, RHP 9438, RHP 22576; NLS [website] [1783]; NASc RHP 772 [1787]; BLML Maps 9905(4), CUL Maps.c.151.80.1, A.K. Bell Library Plan Chest 5, Drawer 5, Perth & Kinross Archives CC1/P284 [2 copies, crumbling badly], NASc RHP 2062, RHP 5181, RHP 14005 [1805]; Perth & Kinross Archives CC1/P134-137.
Gardens:
shown
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Old Bridge destroy'd 1621.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
[Main map:] Nobility & gentry of the two counties.
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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