Perthshire-Perth-1823
CBTM:
22067
Map Date:
1823
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
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:
'Plan of the city of Perth from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1823'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 74-feet chains. Note on population in 1821 below 'References'.
Scale:
1:3996
Map-maker:
John Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53.5 x 66.3 [map: plate 54.3 x 69.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Steps to County Buildings.
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Lime Shore.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
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
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Perth & Kinross Archives PE/P390; Perth A.K. Bell Library [ex Sandeman Library]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].
Industry:
food/drink
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
nurseries: ['Furrow' effect].
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Church ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Mostly outlying; includes innkeepers, bank managers and ministers].
Relief:
shown partially: [On east bank of river].
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Crosses:
multiple crosses
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown, coffee houses: [Exchange Coffee Room].
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: Incomplete in built-up part.
Ordnance Survey's
1859-60
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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