Stirlingshire-Falkirk-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21744

Map Date:

16.4.1812

Repository reference:

NLS EMS.p.127

Historic county:

Stirlingshire

Town name:

Falkirk

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS887879

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 9581

Map title:

'Plan of Falkirk and adjoining lands'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. Presumably for estate purpose; chains in scale assumed to be Scottish.

Scale:

1:8880

Map-maker:

John Shaw [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.0 x 40.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

land-use, owners: Larger estates.

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Falkirk History Reseach Centre A058.194 [original]; NLS EMS.p.127 [photo].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Mostly outlying].

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

coal: Circle symbol.

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560