Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1661
CBTM:
21875
Map Date:
1661
Repository reference:
NLS [open access]
Historic county:
Aberdeenshire
Town name:
Aberdeen
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NJ943063
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NJ 9010
Map title:
'Abredoniae novae ey veteris descriptio.'
Comments on map:
Text in mix of Latin and English. [Entry prepared from NLS facsimile.]
Scale:
1:10,800
Map-maker:
James Gordon [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60 x 74
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Aberdeen Archives G1, G4, H2, J1, Dr.A, Aberdeen University Library, BL, NLS EMS.s.249 [originals]; NLS [website]; NASc RHP 324 [1842: pub Spalding Club]; NLS MS.5844, no.2, NASc RHP 6315/1 [1845: W. & A.K. Johnston]; Aberdeen Archives-PCA, NASc RHP 25371 [1902.c: W. & A.K. Johnston]; Aberdeen Archives Loose Plans Box 1; BL 10370.c.11, CUL RC.39.65 [1905: in G.M.Fraser, Historical Aberdeen]; NLS Map.l.43.21 [1974]; NLS open access [1999 facsimile].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Ruins of Bishop's dovecot, Ruins of Sick House, Ruins of castle wall and Templar's establishment.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: King's College; bottom: prospect of New Aberdeen from the cornfields [to west]; bottom left: territory of Freedom of New Aberdeen.
Relief:
(pictorial)
Symbolic elements:
Man measuring on top of scale.
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in estuary and sea.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [On left].
Dedicee of map:
Dr Gilbert Gray.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
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