Roxburghshire-Kelso-1854 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22784

Map Date:

1854

Repository reference:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 44751

Historic county:

Roxburghshire

Town name:

Kelso

Map type:

Utility

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 shewing proposed lines of sewerage. 1854'.

Comments on map:

Map is signed bottom left 'Daniel Fox Sur. 1854', bottom right 'Manchester 14th, July 1854 James Burnlees Engineer': this suggests that attribution should be to Fox rather than Burnlees. Apart from street-names is rather lacking in text.

Scale:

1:1056*

Map-maker:

? Daniel Fox [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

167.5 x 95.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Evident that in part only frontages are shown.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, sewers, misc: Town Wells, named well. Proposed sewers blue and red, apparently according to which outfall is used.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Undescribed: with grey St John's crosses on hatched red.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 44751.

Leisure and entertainment:

museums

Antiquities:

Abbey in Ruins: in plan.

Map material:

tracing linen

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1857

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560