Roxburghshire-Jedburgh-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23138

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

National Library of Scotland [map room] EMS.s.70A

Historic county:

Roxburghshire

Town name:

Jedburgh

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT728340

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 7134

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Kelso and its environs from actual survey by William McPherson, Surveyor, 1852.'

Comments on map:

Bottom right are reference to public buildings and other notes, including population, somewhat in the manner of John Wood.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

William McPherson, Surveyor [sv], James Turner & Co., Lothian Road, Edinburgh [lith, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.7 x 60.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds: [Grand Stand].

Woodland:

shown, landmark tree, orchards: [Trysting Tree].

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Police, Limit of free delivery as authorised by Postmaster-General, 17 July 1850.

Known copies of map:

NLS EMS.s.70A; NLS [website].

Industry:

uncertain: Wooden Mills.

Railways:

routes, sidings, named, turntables, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

river shoals, weirs and waterfalls: [Islands].

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

museums, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in most built-up part: similar treatment to John Wood: note, bottom right, that Duke of Roxburge is Superior over the town and parish].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right-centre: Kelso Abbey.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Cemeteries:

shown: [Church Yard].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560