Renfrewshire-Greenock-1825 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22049

Map Date:

1825

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Renfrewshire

Town name:

Greenock

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS277762

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 2877

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Greenock from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1825.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of Scots chains of 74 ft 1 inch: measures as 1:2667: but this is evidently a mistake.

Scale:

1:8880*

Map-maker:

John Wood [sv], W. Murphy, Edinr. [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

64.8 x 34.2 [map: plate 66.0 x 35.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours, quays

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets, misc: Tontine.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4, CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].

Industry:

food/drink, glass, ship yards, rope walk, timber, abbatoirs

River and foreshore features:

misc: A sandbank in the Clyde, being the town's property.

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

fish ponds

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560