Roxburghshire-Kelso-1823 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22056

Map Date:

1823

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Roxburghshire

Town name:

Kelso

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 made by John Wood Edinr. 1823'.

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. 66 foot chains specified: scale is about 1 inch to 2.6 chains. Population note in reference.

Scale:

1:2064

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinr. [sv], T. Clerk [eng], Kelso, 1 North Bridge, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.2 x 66.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards: Orchards inferred from tree patterns.

Known copies of map:

ScBA M/25/4 [1823]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; ScBA M/25/4 [1992].

Industry:

paper/print

River and foreshore features:

misc: 'Cauld' in river.

Gardens:

GN

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown: [Apparently largely in one ownership; includes innkeepers].

Road transport:

coach office

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560