Renfrewshire-Greenock-1861 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21755

Map Date:

[1861]

Repository reference:

NLS R.243.g

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 Greenock and suburbs

Comments on map:

Faces title of Post-Office Greenock Directory for 1861-62, 14th annual edition, Greenock: Joseph Blair, 'for the letter carriers of the Post Office': preface dated June 1861, and notes that map is a new addition. Lack of text on map, apart from streets, is rather marked.

Scale:

1:7040*

Map-maker:

J.H. Glassford, City of Glasgow Bank Buildings, 32 Cathcart St [eng].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

40.0 x 21.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water: Apparently very bad litho, with some reversed-out lettering, and some water dirty gamboge.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, quays

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Known copies of map:

NLS R.243.g.

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Parkland:

public parks

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