Selkirkshire-Galashiels-1824
CBTM:
22459
Map Date:
1824
Repository reference:
BL 10369.k.10
Historic county:
Selkirkshire
Town name:
Galashiels
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT490365
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 5132
Map title:
'Plan of Galashiels from actual survey by J. Wood. Edinburgh, 1824.'
Comments on map:
Transcript version, f.p. 100 in Robert Hall, The history of Galashiels, Galashiels: Alexander Walker, 1898.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
John Wood, Edinburgh [sv].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
27.7 x 43.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
National Archives of Scotland RHP 41037 [photo]; Galashiels Library, Borders Archive M/14/10 [uncertain status]; NLS [website]; BL 10369.k.10 [1898: in Robert Hall, The history of Galashiels].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles, timber, uncertain: Mills.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
notable residents: [Not in most built-up part].
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Crosses:
cross
Cemeteries:
shown
Garden and park buildings:
summer houses
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1858
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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