Perthshire-Perth-1848 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22915

Map Date:

1848

Repository reference:

Perth & Kinross Archives, Registrars Plans, P1-6

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 lithographed for the Perth Directory by Jas. Turner & Co. Edinburgh 1848.'

Comments on map:

Exeter 22915-22917 and 22920-22921 are very similar in content: dating assumed from increasing refinement of execution. They all seem to derive from Nichol, 1841 [Exeter 21792].

Scale:

1:3600

Map-maker:

Jas. Turner & Co. Edinburgh [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.5 x 50.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Coal Shore, Coal Slips, Lime Shore.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, misc: Aqueduct.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Perth & Kinross Archives Registrars Plans P1-6.

Industry:

engineering, uncertain: Factory.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown: [Larger ones: indicated by 'paths'].

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown, curling ponds

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