Wigtownshire-Stranraer-1900 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22962

Map Date:

23.6.1900

Repository reference:

Dumfries, Ewart Library [fiche]

Historic county:

Wigtownshire

Town name:

Stranraer

Map type:

advertising

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX059608

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NX 0357

Map title:

'Stranraer'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from fiche: Ewart Library says main map is about 1:95,040, and this has been used to compensate scale and dimensions. Inset on Stephens and Mackintosh, Business street map of Wigtownshire, dated 23/6/1900 bottom left.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

Geo. Gibbons & Co., Leicester [pr], Stephens & Mackintosh, Advertising contractors, Leicester [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22 x 30 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, advertising: Grey buildings.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

auctions

Known copies of map:

Dumfries, Ewart Library [fiche: original may be at Stranraer Library].

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Gardens:

nurseries

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Round side of county map: nominally 32 advertisements.

Retail activity:

advertisers on map

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1862.c

1:1056

1893

1:1056

1:10,560