Inverness-shire-Inverness-1802 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22815

Map Date:

? 1802

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1053

Historic county:

Inverness-shire

Town name:

Inverness

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NH667454

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NH 6646

Map title:

'A plan of the Town of Inverness with the ruin's of Fort George and remain's of Olivers Fort' [sic].

Comments on map:

TNA [PRO] lists say 1802, by J.S. Sedley. Usual Board of Ordnance style, but buildings mapped in detail, almost anticipating Ordnance Survey 1:1056: finely executed.

Scale:

1:1200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

221 x 51

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, navigation aids, misc: Posts for hauling up Vessels.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

cross

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1053 [WO 78/1927] [2 copies].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Single-masted sailing vessel in New Harbour, two-masted one in Murray Firth [sic].

Cemeteries:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1867

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560