CAMPBELTOWN - MAP - 1832

This 'double-folded' 35 cm x 30 cm map of Campbeltown shows the principal streets, Barley

Bannocks Hill, Balligreggan Hill, The Relief Church, Castlehill Church and The 'New' Church,
Leckevroyan, Low Askomil, Limecraigs and Kilkerran, Moil Castle, distilleries and
Campbelltown Loch and was published in The 1832 Parliamentary Report : "Reports Upon The
Boundaries Of The Several Cities, Burghs And Towns In Scotland, In Respect To The Election
Of Members To Serve In Parliament".

Every burgh in Scotland was visited by two commissioners, Mr William Murray and Captain J W
Pringle of The Royal Engineers and plans drawn up to illustrate the verbal descriptions of the
new parliamentary boundaries and, according to their report, 'all the burghs were visted
twice, some of them oftener', between November 1831 and February 1832.

The commissioners were given clear instructions to form unambiguous and precise new
boundaries, preferably using permanent urban features and these described in their report.

Given their speed of execution, the plans must have been based at best on a quick survey
and any available published mapping of the town and the only colours on the map are the red
of the proposed Parliamentary boundary and the blue of the water.

Along with each map, was a report containing "a statement of the current trade,
manufactures and general circumstances of the burgh; a statement of the population and
number of residential houses in the burgh and its suburbs, including those with a value of
over £10; the amount of assessed taxes payable by the different burghs [in Campbeltown's
case the assessed taxes of the burgh then totalled at just £316 ! ] and a detailed description of
the proposed new parliamentary boundary, with fixed points indicated on the accompanying
plans".

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All of the Scottish plans were executed at the detailed six-inch to the mile scale, contrasting
with The Reform Act plans for England and Wales in 1831 - 1832, which were drawn at a
range of smaller scales and the plans engraved by one of the then esteemed London
engravers, including Benjamin Rees Davies, Thomas Ellis, J Henshall, Henry Martin and, in
this case, possibly, James Gardner of 163 Regent Street, London.