Wigtownshire-Wigtown-1900
CBTM:
22964
Map Date:
23.6.1900
Repository reference:
Dumfries, Ewart Library [fiche]
Historic county:
Wigtownshire
Town name:
Wigtown
Map type:
advertising
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NX434553
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NX 4260
Map title:
'Wigtown'.
Comments on map:
Entry 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 17 [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:
harbours
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Dumfries, Ewart Library [fiche: original may be at Stranraer Library].
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle, church.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Round side of county map: nominally 32 advertisements.
Monuments:
Monuments: [Martyrs Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Retail activity:
advertisers on map
Ordnance Survey's
1848
1:1056
1:10,560
1894
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
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