Dumbartonshire is a confusing county, split into separate sections spread across the top of Glasgow. Even the spelling is confused, as more recently it has been spelt Dunbartonshire. Anyway, we are publishing a few maps here, which help develop our good coverage of the Glasgow conurbation, linking up with sheets for Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire. The following maps are taken from the 25" or 1:2,500 maps and reduced down to a scale of approx 15 inches to the mile. They show the areas in considerable detail. Each covers an area of a mile by a mile and a half. Maps are available through our On-line Mapshop. Information pages are given for individual titles; simply follow the links below.
Apart from the obvious local interest, the maps will be of especial interest to industrial archaeologists, with a wealth of detail concerning transport and industry, nowhere more so than on the Clydebank map, with its Clydebank Shipbuilding Works, where such liners as the Lusitania were built and the Kilbowie Factory where the Singer Manufacturing Co developed their great works, by the 1880s employing more than 5,000 making sewing machines.
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The maps cost just £ 2.25 each. You can now order maps direct from our On-line Mapshop. For other information and postage costs, see Index Page and Ordering Information Page.
Most maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. For a full list of maps for Scotland, go to the Scotland page
Alan Godfrey Maps, Prospect Business Park, Leadgate, Consett, DH8 7PW. Tel 01207 583388
