Roxburghshire-Melrose-1826 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21975

Map Date:

1826

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]

Historic county:

Roxburghshire

Town name:

Melrose

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT546342

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 5132

Map title:

'Sketch of Melrose and Gartonside 1826'.

Comments on map:

Bottom right: 'The Environs are Sketched by John Wood Edinr.': this no doubt accounts for dotted rather than solid property or field boundaries. Accent seems to be more of 'desirable residences' than urban mapping, within the limits of Wood's style, so that the map is functional rather than decorative.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinburgh [sv], T. Clerk [eng], P. Brown and T. Nelson, Edinr [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.5 x 41.0

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well, by Cross.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BL [listed in Moir], NLS; NLS [website].

Industry:

food/drink

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown: Including inn landlord, postmaster and schoolmaster.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown: 'Poor Road to Newstead'.

Crosses:

cross, (symbol): [With +].

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1859

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560