Perthshire-Perth-1827 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22846

Map Date:

1827

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 36.f.18

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

Comments on map:

Inset on 'South East part of Perthshire, with Clackmannan. From Mr Stobie's survey by William Johnson Land Surveyor', no. 18 in Atlas of Scotland, or county atlas, Edinburgh: Trustee upon John Thomson's Estate, London: Baldwin & Cradock, Dublin: Cumming, 1831. Marked lack of text, of which lack of title is symptomatic.

Scale:

1:3960*

Map-maker:

Sidy. Hall, Bury Strt, Bloomsby. [eng], John Thomson, Edinburgh [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21.8 x 22.8 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Quite detailed, including parish church buttresses: emphasised buildings not described. On north and south are numerous unnamed streets which parts of some 'terraces' without hatching.

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: 'South Shore'.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 9905 (10), CUL maps.b.18.G.8, A.K. Bell Library Plan Chest 5, Drawer 5; A.K. Bell Library-Max; NLS [website].

Antiquities:

Old Bridge Destroyed 1621, Cromwell's Fortification.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1859-60

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560