Renfrewshire-Port Glasgow-1799 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22949

Map Date:

1799

Repository reference:

Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/676

Historic county:

Renfrewshire

Town name:

Port Glasgow

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS321745

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 2877

Map title:

'A plan of the town and harbour of Port Glasgow.'

Comments on map:

Purpose unclear; very fine execution: shows two proposed roads. Might be useful as a substitute for reality in Glasgow.

Scale:

1:888

Map-maker:

John Ainslie, Edinburgh [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

199.0 x 87.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, steps to buildings

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, quays, misc: Dry Dock, Shades [sheds], Ware Houses, Engine [unclear what this is].

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/676 [1799]; Moir [1909: 28 x 23 cm, in J.D. Marwick, The River Clyde & Clyde Burghs].

Industry:

food/drink, lime/cement, ship yards, rope walk, misc: Wrights Yard, Coopers Yard, Coal Yard.

Gardens:

shown: [Mostly shown inn detail, but one block is annotated 'GARDDENS In this plot of Garden Ground as well as the Plot West it was thought unnecessary to Measure each Garden separately'].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Relief:

slopes shown: Delicate brushwork.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560