Wigtownshire-Stranraer-1845 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21976

Map Date:

1845

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]

Historic county:

Wigtownshire

Town name:

Stranraer

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX059608

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NX 0357

Map title:

'Plan of Stranraer.'

Comments on map:

Bottom right: tables of post-miles, fairs and market, mail arrival and dispatch times and population.

Scale:

1:1188

Map-maker:

John Wood [author], Turner & Co. sc. Edinburgh [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94.5 x 55.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, boundaries, other: 'Subscribers' Names are Inserted.'

Colouring:

boundaries, owners: Three owners.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Dumfries, Ewart Library, NLS EMS.s.468, Stranraer Museum [on display]; NLS [website].

Industry:

rope walk, timber

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

misc: Subscribers only: not very numerous.

Dedicee of map:

The Subscribers.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1862.c

1:1056

1893

1:1056

1:10,560