Renfrewshire-Port Glasgow-1806 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22085

Map Date:

20.8.1806

Repository reference:

BLML M.T.6.g.2.(7)

Historic county:

Renfrewshire

Town name:

Port Glasgow

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS321745

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 2877

Map title:

'... Plan of the towns and harbour of Port Glasgow and Newark...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from dyeline copy, BM 30:6:1960 green. Notes on harbour improvements at top of map.

Scale:

1:1920

Map-maker:

John Ainslie [author, pb], Book Sellers at Port Glasgow and Greenock [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

88.5 x 45.3 [map: plate 89.3 x 45.8].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, navigation aids, quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Town Clerk's Office [MS version: listed in Moir]; Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/680A-D [4 copies], BL M.T.6.g.2(7), NLS Map.Rol.a.39, RSGS '204C' [photocopies].

Industry:

food/drink, lime/cement, ship yards, rope walk, textiles, timber, misc: Wrights Yards, Cooperage.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Pigeon House.

Dedicee of map:

Magistrates and town council.

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560