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Renfrewshire-Johnstone-1782

CBTM:
22947
Map Date:
1782
Repository reference:
Glasgow City Archives TD 832/8/3
Historic county:
Renfrewshire
Town name:
Johnstone
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NS432630
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 4565
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Johnstone Renfrewshire by Charles Ross 1782'.
Comments on map:
Covers western part of the grid-layout-centre only. Accompanied by written notes and instructions on feuing on separate sheets of paper. Unclear from map whether all the buildings it shows were actually erected.
Scale:
1:1776
Map-maker:
Charles Ross [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
28.2 x 38.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Buildings infilled yellow.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Glasgow City Archives TD 832/8/3.
Industry:
textiles: Including 'Cotton miln grounds'.
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
shown partially: [Slopes by river].
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Notes on quality of land: 'good Dry land', 'a fine hauch', etc.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1857
1:2500
1:10,560
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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