Stirlingshire-Stirling-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22087

Map Date:

1820

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 10410 (5)

Historic county:

Stirlingshire

Town name:

Stirling

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS793939

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 7897

Map title:

'Town of Stirling, from actual survey: 9th Feby. 1819, by John Grassom.'

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Stirlingshire', 1 inch to 1.75 miles (1:110,880), part of Thomson's atlas project. Not much text, but much more useful-looking than Smith, 1815 [Exeter 22086]. Scale of English chains: 1 inch to 18.5 chains, 1:14,652.

Scale:

1:14,652

Map-maker:

John Grassom [sv], Willm. Johnson, Edinr. [dr], Sidy. Hall, London [eng], John Thomson & Co., Edinburgh [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 15.0 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 10410 (5), BOL C18 e.4/7, RGS MR 1.C.145 [515791], RSGS 'CC.076' [H-01]; NLS [website] [may be dated 1820].

Relief:

slopes shown

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560