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Roxburghshire-Hawick-1824

CBTM:
22052
Map Date:
1824
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Roxburghshire
Town name:
Hawick
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT504148
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 5014
Map title:
'Plan of the town and environs of Hawick from actual survey by John Wood Edinburgh 1824'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 66-foot chains.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
59.3 x 52.8 [map: plate 61.5 x 54.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells in street.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
ScBA M/25/3 [1824]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [apparently no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; ScBA M/25/3A [1992].
Industry:
food/drink, rope walk, textiles, timber, misc: Tar Yd.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, misc: Dam.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries: [Some areas of herringbone-furrow, away from built-up part].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown: [Not quite complete on south; includes innkeepers and ministers].
Clubs and societies:
misc: Subscription Rooms.
Relief:
prominent hills
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile Stone.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1857
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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