Stirlingshire-Stirling-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22072

Map Date:

1820

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

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:

'Plan of the town of Stirling from actual survey by John Wood 1820'.

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 66-foot chains.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, Canaan, Edinr. [sv, pb], Clerk Sculpt. Edinr. [eng], Stirling, 1 North Bridge Street, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.0 x 104.5 [on 2 plates].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces, outside built-up area only: Governours Ho. and various former palaces.

Buildings:

shown, archways, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: 'Ladders' may be arched passages.

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, boat houses

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pumps in streets, named wells, Washing Green.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, misc: Trons [one in Flesh Market is circle with upward-pointing arrow].

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NLS EMS.b.1.71 [1820]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website] [apparently 2 versions].

Industry:

lime/cement, oil/soap etc, rope walk, timber, uncertain: Works, Factory.

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Projected Streets [pecked lines].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, coffee houses: [Coffee Ho.].

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only: Mostly not behind frontages.

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560